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II— SANITARY WORK.
(Dealing with the sanitary circumstances and administration of the
Borough of Lambeth.)
Return shewing the Number of Notices served in the Borough
of Lambeth, from the 1st January to the 31st December, 1923.
Number of Notices served 12,921*
A. COMPULSORILY NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES!
(Public Health (London) Act, 1891.)
No. of Notices served 3128
No. of Infected Houses 2773
Small Pox —
Scarlet Fever 731
Typhoid and Para-typhoid Fever ‡ 8
Diphtheria 525
Membranous Croup 4
Continued Fever —
Puerperal Fever 48
Erysipelas 107
Cerebro-Spinal Fever and Post-Basic Meningitis § 7
Acute Polio-Myelitis§§ 10
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 60
Measles 925
German Measles 121
Primary Pneumonia 166
Influenzal Pneumonia 54
Encephalitis Lethargica 2
Malaria 4
Dysentery —
Trench Fever 1
Anthrax —
B. GENERAL NUISANCES AND DRAINAGE DEFECTS
(Public Health (London) Act, and Metropolis Local Management
Acts.)
No. of Notices served*† 9,793
Works, Structural—
Drainage, Defective 299
Intercepting Traps with Fresh Air Inlets required, or
defective 112
* Including Measles and German Measles, but excluding notices under
the Housing Acts.
† Excluding Tuberculosis.
‡ 1 case of Para-typhoid.
§ 4 cases of Cerebro-spinal Fever and 3 cases of Post-basic meningitis.
§§ 1 case of Polio-encephalitis acuta.