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Lambeth 1916
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1916
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TABLE L. Table of Civil Population, Total Registered Births and New Cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health (by notification), during the year 1916, in the Borough of Lambeth, classified according to Diseases and Localities. [Local Government Board Old Table B.]
| Registration Sub-Districts. (a) | Population at all Ages. | (d) Total Registered Births 1916. | New Cases of Sickness in each the knowledge of the Medical Locality,coming to during Officer of Health Officer of Health 1916. | Number of such Cases removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital during 1916. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Census 1911. (b) | Estimated 1916. [Civil Population.) (c) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | ||
| Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Erysipelas. | Cerebro-spinal Fever. | Polio-myelitis Acuta. | Ophthalmia. | Whooping Cough. | Measles. | German Measles. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Erysipelas. | Cerebro-spinal Fever. | Polio-myelitis Acuta. | Ophthalmia. | Whooping Cough. | Measles. | German Measles. | ||||||||
| Typhoid or Enteric. | Continued & Relapsing. | Puerperal. | Typhoid or Enteric. | Continued & Relapsing. | Puerperal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lambeth Church | 47910 | 43921 | 2235 | 91 | 112 | 2 | 6 | – | 2 | 37 | 10 | 2 | 11 | 422 | 672 | 376 | 91 | 108 | 1 | 5 | – | 1 | 8 | 8 | 1 | – | 19 | 25 | 19 |
| Kennington | 48609 | 45406 | 1072 | 72 | 60 | – | 2 | – | 4 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 19 | 304 | 399 | 201 | 68 | 59 | – | 2 | – | 2 | 5 | 7 | – | – | 25 | 19 | 16 |
| Stockwell | 62608 | 59469 | 2138 | 90 | 61 | 1 | 1 | – | 4 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 224 | 376 | 179 | 88 | 58 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | – | 18 | 27 | 15 |
| Brixton | 76650 | 74024 | 1498 | 138 | 137 | 1 | 8 | – | 6 | 36 | 14 | 1 | 27 | 262 | 384 | 187 | 133 | 112 | 1 | 8 | – | 3 | 16 | 14 | 1 | – | 15 | 25 | 18 |
| Norwood | 62281 | 60909 | 1037 | 110 | 62 | – | 2 | – | 4 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 364 | 717 | 269 | 106 | 61 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | – | 18 | 40 | 37 |
| Totals | 298058 | 283729 | 7980 | 501 | 432 | 4 | 19 | – | 20 | 122 | 38 | 12 | 83 | 1576 | 2548 | 1212 | 486 | 398 | 3 | 18 | – | 8 | 41 | 35 | 5 | – | 95 | 136 | 105 |
N.B. —In addition to the above new cases of infectious sickness coming to , . _
cation under the Notification Clauses of the Public Health (London) Act 1891 knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health by compulsory medical notinnotified
voluntarily, viz.: Chicken Pox 728, Measles 1880 and Whooping' or the Orders and Regulations made thereunder, the following cases were
r i Cough 507.