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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lambeth 1905
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1905
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decrease in the number of notifications of the same disease
received, points to a sudden decline in the prevalence of
Diphtheria throughout the Borough of Lambeth during 1905, as
well as during 1904, 1903, 1902 and 1901 ; and that, too,
although Diphtheria has been rising slowly but surely in
epidemic proportions for the previous 20 years ending 1900
(vide Report in Appendix, p. 47). The statistics for London, as
a whole, are no less remarkable.
Quinquennial
Period.
Old Parish of
Lambeth.
Boro
1863—1867
1868—1872
1873—1877
1878—1882
1883—1887
1888—1892
1893—1897
1898—1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
Population
(estimated).
902119
1021165
1132106
1245913
1313211
1367734
1443857
924333
302533
305102
307711
310359
313045
Number of
Deaths.
148
96
184
255
365
537
683
362
47
49
28
33
37
Death-Rate per
million living.
164
94
163
205
278
393
483
392
155
160
91
106
118
The age and sex incidence and mortality from Diphtheria
cases notified in the Borough of Lambeth during 1905 are as
follow :—