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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 1919
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1919
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3. —" Contacts " or " Suspects," " Carriers " and
" Convalescents " (Military).
Many " Contacts " or " Suspects," " Carriers " and " Convalescents
" (military) were watched in connection with different
diseases as follows:—
(a) Cerebro-spinal or " Spotted " fever (epidemic cerebrospinal
meningitis), 1.
(b) Enteric or Typhoid Fever, 1.
(c) Plague, 18.
(d) Dysentery, 10.
(e) Malaria, 28.
(f) Smallpox, 56.
(g) Typhus, 2.
(h) General Infectious Diseases, 19.*
In addition to the above military cases, the following
civilian " contacts " were watched, viz.: 10 (Diphtheria) in connection
with the Boys' Brigade and the Royal Naval Hospital
Schools.
* Civilian passengers and civilian prisoners of war from Copenhagen,
Helsingfors and Rotterdam respectively.