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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 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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TABLE G (1).
Shewing the number of medical Certificates (corrected) for the compulsorily Notifiable Infectious Diseases under
the notification clauses of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, or the Orders and Regulations made thereunder,
received in the Borough of Lambeth during 1924, and during the two years 1922-23, together with the averages for
the three decennia 1891-1900 (Parish, 1901 1910 (Borough), and 1911-1920 (Borough).
Disease.
Borough of
Lambkth.
Annual
Average,
1911-1920
(Borough)
10 years.
Annual
Average
1901-10
(Borough)
10 years.
Annual
Average
1891-1900
(Parish)
10 years.
t922
1923
1924
Cholera
—
—
—
0.l
0.2
11.5
Smallpox
1
—
—
0.2
49.9
22.0
Scarlet Fever
1,358
823
940
904.1
1105.1
1331.3
Diphtheria
640
580
589
482.7
379.8
715.1
Membranous Croup
4
4
—
5.5
10. 4
26.2
Typhus
—
—
—
0.0
0.l
1.1
†Typhoid or Enteric
18
8
19
31.9
100.5
189.6
Continued and Relapsing
—
—
—
0.8
4.1
25.7
Erysipelas
119
107
101
175.0
241.4
347.0
Puerperal
31
48
22
21.8
17.0
18.9
*Plague
—
—
—
0.0
0.0
0.0
Cerebro-spinal Fever
1
7
5
18.2
11.5
—