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Lambeth 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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*§ Polio-myelitis acuta
6
—
0.0
5
83.3
6
*Ophthalmia Neonatorum
47
—
0.0
13
27.6
47
*Whooping Cough
—
23
—
—
—
—
*Measles
3786
88
2.32
278
7.3
3.232
*German Measles
260
0.0
—
—
245
*Tuberculosis —
—
—
—
—
—
Pulmonary (primary)
463
279
60.25
—
—
—
Non-pulmonary (primary) ...
98
79
80.6
—
—
—
*Chickenpox
—
—
—
—
—
—
* Malaria
4
2
50.0
—
—
4
*Dysentery
—
—
—
—
—
—
*Primary Pneumonia (Acute)
186
70
25.6
68
36.5
183
*Influenzal Pneumonia (Acute)
87
22
25.3
86
* Encephalitis Lethargica (Acute)
27
7
25.9
23
85.2
27
*Trench Fever
—
—
—
—
—
—
* Anthrax
1
—
0.0
1
100.0
1
* Plague was made compulsorily notifiable on September 191b, 1900, cerebro-spinal fever on March 12th, 1907, polio myelitis and
polio encephalitis actua on September 1st, 1911, ophthalmia neonatorum on March 13th, 1911, glanders (human), Antnrax (human), and
hydrophobia (human), on April 26th, 1909, pulmonary tuberculosis (poor law cases) on January 1st, 1909, pulmonary tuberculosis (hospital
cases) on May 1st, 1911, pulmonary tuberculosis (private cases) on January 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),
the numbers of cases notified being respectively, 1,560, 40, 556, 238, 473 and 307. Whooping Cough was compulsorily notifiable from
January 1st. 1913, to December 31st, 1917, the numbers of cases notified being as follows: — 1913, 1,428; 1914, 1,389; 1915, 1,607; 1916,
1,576; and 1917,902. Measles and German Measles became compulsorily notifiable on January 1st. 1916, acute encephalitis lethargica
on January 1st. 1919, and malaria, dysentery, pneumonia (acute primary and acute influenzal) and trench fever on March 1st, 1919.
47 Measles cases were notified by parents (or relatives), in addition to the 3,786 notified cases (mentioned above).
+ Including 4 cases of paratyphoid fever.
I The death from typhoid fever was the case of a patient in an outside Institution, not having been notified as a Lambeth case suffering
from that disease during life.
§ Including 1 case of polio-encephalitis acuta, which recovered (the patient being treated at home).