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Lambeth 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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TABLE G.
Shewing the total numbers of cases (corrected) of infectious diseases notified compulsorily by Medical
Practitioners under the Notification Clauses of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Orders and
Regulations made thereunder, in the Borough of Lambeth, during 1924, together with the total numbers of deaths
registered from the same diseases, the case mortality per 100 persons for each disease, the numbers of cases (with
percentages) removed to hospital, and the numbers of infected houses.
Cases
notified
Deaths
registered.
Case
Mortality
per 100.
Cases
removed
to hospital.
Per cent,
of cases
removed.
Infected
houses.
Cholera
—
—
—
—
—
Smallpox
—
—
—
—
—
Scarlet Fever
940
11
1.17
900
95-7
796
Diphtheria
589
51
8.65
57i
96.9
522
Membranous Croup
—
—
—
Typhus
—
—
—
—
—
—
† Typhoid or Enteric
19
1
0.0+
r9
100.0
15
Continued and Relapsing Fever
—
—
—
—
—
Erysipelas
101
3
2.97
44
43-5
101
Puerperal Fever
22
10
45.4
21
95-4
22
* Plague
—
—
—
—
—
—
*Cerebro-Spinal Fever
5
3
60.0
4
80.0
5