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Public Health Department,
Lambeth Town Hall,
Brixton Hill, S.W.2.
March, 1919.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth.
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
The sanitary and administrative work of the year 1918, like
that of the previous three years, 1915-17, has been that of "carrying
on" during the war, and no new schemes have, consequently, been
introduced. This "carrying on" work is, as shown in the Report,
satisfactory. The statistical results for the year 1918, as set out in
the Report, are equally satisfactory. The general death-rate is
slightly raised on account of the influenza epidemic which raged
throughout the Borough during the third and fourth quarters of the
year, resulting in a total of 819 deaths (corrected) certified as having
resulted from that particular disease, out of a total of 4,948 deaths
(corrected), certified as having resulted from all diseases. The
corrected general death-rate is 18.9 per 1,000 of the estimated civil
population. Excluding the influenza deaths, the corrected general
death-rate is 15.7, as compared with an average for the past four
years 1914-17 (similar war period) of 15.2. The other corrected
death-rates, compared with the averages for the same period of four
years 1914-17, are as follow (the averages being given in brackets)
zymotic 1.3 (1.1), typhoid 0.02 (.03), and diarrhoea 0.23 (0.45)
per 1,000 of the estimated civil population respectively, and infantile
mortality 71.4 (80.4) per 1,000 of the total births registered
(uncorrected).
To the Staffs and to the Chiefs of the Departments, as also to
the Members of the Council, my thanks are due for assistance
readily given at all times in connection with the carrying out of my
important duties as Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive
Tuberculosis Officer of the Borough.
The Report has been curtailed and condensed owing to war
conditions, as has been the case during the last few years.
I am, Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive
Tuberculosis Officer.