Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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Local Government Board New Tables TABLE II.
CASKS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED WITHIN THE BOROUGH OF LAMBETH DURING THE YEAR 1924
Notifiable Disease.
Number of Cases
Notified.
Total Casks Notified
in each Locality
(e.g., Parish or Ward)
of the District.
Total Casks
Removed to
Hospital.
At all Ages.
Under
1
At Ages—Years.
Lambeth
Church.
Kennington.
Stockwell.
Brixton.
Norwood.
1 to 5.
5 to I5.
15 to
25.
25 to
45.
45 to
65.
65 and
upwards.
Small-pox
Cholera
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)
589
13
220
228
78
50
——
—
207
114
97
116
55
571
Erysipelas
101
2
6
4
1 I
22
44
12
25
23
14
15
24
44
Scarlet Fever
940
14
314
500
69
40
3
—
179
179
174
248
160
900
Typhus Fever
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Enteric Fever (4 paratyphoid fever)
19
—
—
9
7
2
1
—
1
3
7
6
2
19
Relapsing Fever
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Continued Fever
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Puerperal Fever
22
—
—
—
6
l6
—
—
3
10
7
I
1
21
Plague
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Pulmonary Tuberculosis*
463
—
3
18
118
204
108
r 2
85
73
88
134
83
—
Other Forms of Tuberculosis+
98
4
18
31
17
22
4
2
24
12
23
10
20
—
Cerebro-spinal Fever
5
—
—3
2
—
—
—
—
—
—
4
1
—
4
Polio-myelitis acuta (I polio-encephalitis acuta)
6
1
1
4
—
1
—
3
—
2
5
Encephalitis Lethargica.
27
—
—
6
6
7
6
2
2
2
5
10
8
23
Ophthalmia Neonatorurn
47
47
—
—
—
—
—
—
8
8
14
11
6
13
Measles ‡
3786
204
2043
1444
64
28
3
—
523
718
806
1052
687
278
German Measles ‡
Malaria
260
4
5
—
69
—
156
—
22
—
8
2
2
—
—
23
1
43
—
38
88
1
68
2
—
Anthrax
—
—
—I
—
—
—
—
—
—
1
—
—
1
Primary Pneumonia Acuta
186
1 2
32
12
20
48
36
26
39
25
47
42
33
68
Influenzal Pneumonia Acuta
87
2
3
5
10
33
20
14
10
12
15
30
20
22
Isolation Hospitals, Name and Situation—Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Hoard (one situated in the Stockwell Sub-District and Stockwell Ward of the
Borough of Lambeth). Total available beds provided by the Board—8555. Number of Diseases that can be concurrently treated—All usual notifiable infectious
diseases and (partly) Measles and Whooping Cough.
*Excluding all -re notifications (177) of pulmonary tuberculosis, and notifications under Form C (414) and under Form I) (307) of the 1912 Regulations.
‡Excluding all re-notifications (11) of non pulmonary tuberculosis, and notifications under Form C (91) and under Form D (60) of the 1912 Regulations.
‡Measles and German Measles became compulsorily notifiable within the Borough of Lambeth on January 1st, 1016, and are still compulsorily notifiable