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Public Health Department,
333, Kennington Road, S.E.
February, 1906.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth.
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
In presenting you with the Annual Report, dealing with
the Vital and Sanitary Statistics of the Borough of Lambeth
during the year 1905, I have the pleasure of drawing your
attention to its most satisfactory nature. The mortality rates
are well below the averages, and the morbidity—or sickness—
rates have been also low during the year. The Borough is
benefitting from the strict sanitary control which you, and your
predecessors on the old Vestry of Lambeth, have exercised in
the past. You are to be congratulated in being able to record
that the Borough of Lambeth is one of the healthiest in the
County of London, and takes a favourable position when compared
with any of the large provincial towns of similar size.
An outbreak of diphtheria and pseudo-diphtheria at the Norwood
Parochial Schools is one of the features of the present Report,
as shewing the difficulties in dealing with mild, unrecognised,
cases of diphtheria amongst the inmates of a School, and the
precision and exactness in diagnosis that are to be obtained by
means of bacteriological examinations.
Without belittling in any way the rest of the work that has
been accomplished during ] 905, I would draw attention to the
following matters in connection with which the Borough Council,
as the Sanitary Authority, is to be specially congratulated:—
1. The completion of the Milk Depot at 66, York Road,
Westminster Bridge Road (near Waterloo Station)—
its construction and fitting up being second to none.
2. The increase of the Sanitary Staff by the appointment
of one extra male and one extra female Inspector.