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Lambeth 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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* Plague was made compulsorily notifiable on September 191I1, 1900; cerebro-spinal fever on March I2ih, 1907; glanders (human),
anthrax (human), and hydrophobia (human), on April 26th, 1909; polio-myelitis and polio-encephalitis acuta on September 1st, 1911:
ophthalmia neonatorum on March 13th, 1911 ; pulmonary tuberculosis (poor law cases) on January 1st, 1909, pulmonary tuberculosis
(hospital cases) on May 1st, 1911 ; pulmonary tuberculosis (private cases) 011 January 1st, 1912, and tuberculosis (pulmonary and nonpulmonary)
on February 1st, 1913. Chicken-pox was compulsorily notifiable as follows :—1902 (February 7th to December 31st), 1905
(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.) 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.
N.B.—Of the patients originally notified during 1924, the following were found afterwards not to be suffering from the diseases notified
—Diphtheria, 2 ; typhoid or enteric, 2 ; paratyphoid, 1 ; puerperal fever, 1 : and encephalitis lethargica acuta, 3, and are not included in
the al)Ove table.
t Including 4 cases of paratyphoid fever.
§ Including I case of polio-encephalitis acuta.
Poliomyelitis acuta
4
10
6
7.3
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*Ophthalmia Neonatorum
57
60
47
72.8
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* Whooping Cough
—
—
—
1380 4
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*Measles
3.389
1,103
3.786
2354.2
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*German Measles
227
147
260
635.4
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* Tuberculosis—
Pulmonary (primary)
502
459
463
1112.4
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—
Non-pulmonary (primary)
102
108
98
323.7
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*Chickenpox
—
—
—
—
—
—
*Malaria
8
4
4
59.5
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—
*Dysentery
2
—
—
7.0
—
—
*Primary Pneumonia (Acute)
170
169
186
161.5
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—
*Influenzal Pneumonia (Acute)
106
55
87
126.0
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—
*Encephalitis Lethargica (Acure)
7
2
27
7.0
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*Trench Fever
—
1
—
00
—
—
*Anthrax (human)
—
—
1
0.1
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