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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 1918

Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1918

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Table: Municipal Bacteriological Laboratory. (Inaugurated by the late Vestry 1899.) Table shewing the numbers of pathological samples examined and the results obtained, at the Bacteriological Laboratory during 1918 and the previous 6 years 1912-1917, together with the averages for the 10 years 1901-1910 (Borough).

Municipal Bacteriological Laboratory. (Inaugurated by the late Vestry 1899.) Table shewing the numbers of pathological samples examined and the results obtained, at the Bacteriological Laboratory during 1918 and the previous 6 years 1912-1917, together with the averages for the 10 years 1901-1910 (Borough).

Year.Sputa. Suspected Tuberculosis. Tub.Bac.found.Blood. Suspected Typhoid or Enteric Fever. Reaction obtained.Throat & Nose. Membranes and Secretions. Suspected Diphtheria. Klebs-Lœffler Bac. found.Other Sundry Samples. Result obtained.
Pos.Neg.TotalPos.Neg.TotalPos.Neg.TotalPos.Neg.Total
19187029936921012*14354368—22†
1917773634404*913324685002810
19161263464725232833407440—66
191515539054512344699937103682432
1914411733114414284210873083861218
19136148701484123547130867997181937
191229630560131265755442497121022
Average of 10 years 1901-1910 (Borough)62.8124.4187.219.439.659.036.6448.6485.23.79.112.8

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* Two of the cases were paratyphoid B.
† 2 samples of urine for suspected tubercle bacilli (both negative).
43 vials of antitoxin were distributed free of cost during 1918, under the Antitoxin Order, 1910.
N.B.—Since the Bacteriological Laboratory was inaugurated in 1899 (up to the end of the year 1918), 21,115 examinations have
been conducted there in connection with the following suspected diseases, viz.:—tuberculosis, 7,832; typhoid or enteric
fever,1,129; diphtheria, 11,840; and others, 314.