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Lambeth 1918
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1918
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TABLE G (1). Shewing the number of medical Certificates for the compulsory Notifiable Infectious Diseases under the notification clauses of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, or the Orders and Regulations made thereunder, received in the Borough of Lambeth during 1918 and during the five years 1913-1917, together with the averages for the two decennia 1891-1900 (Parish) and 1901-1910 (Borough).
| Disease. | Borough of Lambeth. | Annual Average, 1901-10 (Borough) 10 years. | Annual Average, 1891-1900 (Parish) 10 years. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913. | 1914. | 1915. | 1916. | 1917. | 1918. | |||
| Cholera | - | 0.2 | 11.5 | |||||
| Smallpox | — | — | — | — | •— | 1 | 49.9 | 22.0 |
| Scarlet Fever | 1,370 | 1,745 | 900 | 501 | 340 | 549 | 1105.1 | 1331.3 |
| Diphtheria | 385 | 550 | 434 | 432 | 563 | 484 | 379.8 | 715.1 |
| Membranous Croup | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 10.4 | 26.2 |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.1 | 1.1 |
| Typhoid or Enteric | 38 | 48 | 32 | 19 | 17 | 15 | 100.5 | 189.6 |
| Continued and Relapsing | 2 | 2 | — | — | 3 | — | 4.1 | 25.7 |
| Erysipelas | 206 | 231 | 177 | 122 | 130 | 105 | 241.4 | 347.0 |
| Puerperal | 25 | 23 | 26 | 20 | 14 | 16 | 17.0 | 18.9 |
| * Plague | - | - | - | |||||
| * Cerebrospinal Fever | 7 | 5 | 44 | 38 | 31 | 23 | 11.5 | - |
| * Poliomyelitis acuta | 6 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 1 | - | - |
| *Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 57 | 57 | 73 | 83 | 67 | 50 | - | - |
| *Whooping Cough | 1,428 | 1,389 | 1,607 | 1,576 | 902 | - | - | |
| *Measles | _ | - | 2,548 | 3224 | 2721 | - | - | |
| *German Measles | - | _ | -_ | 1,212 | 1241 | 402 | - | - |
| *Tuberculosis— | ||||||||
| Pulmonary (primary) | 1,571 | 1,250 | 1,020 | 904 | 1,086 | 1061 | _ | _ |
| Non-pulmonary (primary) | 456 | 273 | 298 | 362 | 444 | 361 | _ | _ |
| *Chicken-pox | - | - | 473 | — | — | 307 | - | - |
* Plague was made compulsorily notifiable on September 19th, 1900; Cerebro Spinal-Fever ("Spotted Fever") on March 12th
1907; Poliomyelitis acuta on September 1st, 1911; Ophthalmia Neonatorum on March 13th, 1911; Pulmonary Tuberculosis (Poor
Law-cases) on Jan. 1st, 1909, Pulmonary Tuberculosis (Hospital cases) on May 1st, 1911, Pulmonary Tuberculosis (Private cases)
°n Jan 1st, 1912, and Tuberculosis (Pulmonary and Non-pulmonary) on February 1st, 1913. Chicken-pox was compulsorily
notifiable as follows:—1902 (February 7th to December 31st), 1903 (January 1st to 6th), 1904 (April 8th to November 8th), 1911
(March 22nd to June 22nd), 1915 (March 17th to June 30th), and 1918 (March 27th to June 30th). Whooping Cough was compulsorily
notifiable from Jan. 1st, 1913, to December 31st, 1917, the numbers of cases notified being as follows:—1913 1 428
1914, 1389; 1915,1607; 1916, 1,576 ; and 1917, 902. Measles and German Measles became compulsorily notifiable on January 1st 1916.
N.B. -of the patients removed to Hospital, the following were reported not to be suffering from the diseases notified:-
Scarlet fever 9 ; diphtheria 3 ; typhoid or enteric 2; cerebro-spinal fever 2 ; measles 1; and typhus 1.