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II. —SANITARY WORK
{Dealing with the sanitary circumstances and administration of the
Borough of Lambeth).
Return shewing the Number of Notices served in the Borough of
Lambeth, from the 1st January to the 31st December, 1924.
Number of Notices served 15,368*
A. COMPULSORILY NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES †
(Public Health (London) Act, 1891).
No. of Notices served
6080
No. of Infected Houses
5292
Small Pox
—
Scarlet Fever
796
Typhoid and Para-typhoid Fever ‡
15
Diphtheria
522
Membranous Croup
—
Continued Fever
—
Puerperal Fever
22
Erysipelas
101
Cerebro-Spinal Fever and Post-Basic Meningitis §
5
Acute Polio-Myelitis
6
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
47
Measles
3232
German Measles
245
Primary Pneumonia
183
Influenzal Pneumonia
86
Encephalitis Lethargica
27
Malaria
4
Dysentery
—
Trench Fever
—
Anthrax
1
B. GENERAL NUISANCES AND DRAINAGE DEFECTS.
(Public Health (London) Act, and Metropolis Local Management
Acts).
No. of Notices served** 9288
Works, Structural—
Drainage, Defective 232
Intercepting Traps with Fresh Air Inlets required, or
defective 123.
*Including Measles and German Measles, but excluding notices under the
Housing Acts,
† Excluding Tuberculosis.
‡ cases of Para-typhoid.
§ 5 cases of Cerebro spinal Fever and no case of Post-basic meningiis.
§§ 1 Case of Polio-encephalitis acuta.