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Lambeth 1925
[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 1925, together with the averages for the three decennia 1891-1900 (Parish), 1901-1910 (Borough), and 1911-1920 (Borough), and the quinquennium 1920-24 (Borough).
| Disease. | 1925 | Annual Average, 1920-24 (Borough) 5 years. | Annual Average, 1911-1920 (Borough) 10 years. | Annual Average 1901-10 (Borough) 10 years. | Annual Average 1891-1900 (Parish) 10 years. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cholera | — | — | 0.l | 0.2 | 11.5 | |
| Smallpox | 2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 49.9 | 2 2.0 | |
| Scarlet fever | 1,042 | 1228.2 | 904.1 | 1105.1 | 1331.3 | |
| Diphtheria | 831 | 611.4 | 482.7 | 379.8 | 715.1 | |
| Membranous Croup | 5 | 3.4 | 5.5 | 10.4 | 26.2 | |
| Typhus | — | — | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
| †Typhoid or enteric | 25 | 12.8 | 31.9 | 100.5 | 189.6 | |
| Continued and Relapsing | 1 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 4.1 | 25.7 | |
| Erysipelas | 127 | 117.4 | 175.0 | 241.4 | 347.0 | |
| Puerperal | 27 | 32.6 | 21.8 | 17.0 | 18.9 | |
| *Plague | — | — | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| *‡Cerebrospinal Fever | 3 | 6.6 | 18.2 | 11.5 | — | |
| *§Poliomyelitis acuta | 6 | 5.8 | 7.3 | — | — | |
| *Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 36 | 70.8 | 72.8 | — | — | |
| *Whooping Cough | — | — | 1380.4 | — | — | |
| *Measles | 798 | 2117.2 | 2354.2 | — | — | |
| *German Measles | 1,111 | 194.2 | 635.4 | — | — | |
| *Tuberculosis— | ||||||
| Pulmonary (primary) | 487 | 533.6 | 1112.4 | — | — | |
| Non-pulmonary (primary) | 88 | 110.6 | 323.7 | — | — | |
| *Chickenpox | — | — | — | — | — | |
| *Malaria | 8 | 12.0 | 59.5 | — | — | |
| *Dysentery | — | 7.0 | — | — | ||
| *Primary Pneumonia (Acute) | 159 | I93.2 | 161.5 | — | — | |
| * Influenzal Pneumonia (Acute) | 87 | 79.8 | 126.0 | — | — | |
| *Encephalitis Lethargica (Acute) | 17 | 12.6 | 7.0 | — | — | |
| *Trench Fever | — | 0.2 | 0.0 | — | — | |
| *Anthrax (human) | — | 0.2 | 0.1 | — | — | |
*Plague was maue compulsorily notifiable on September 19th, 1900; cerebro spinal fever on March 12th, 1907; glanders (human),
anthrax (human), and hydrophobia (human), on April 26th, 1909; poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis 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) on January 1st, 1912, and tuberculosis (pulmonary and nonpulmonary)
on February 1st, 1913 Chicken-pox was compulsorily notifiable as follows 1—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 Tune 30th), and 1918
(March 27th1 to June 30th.) Whooping Cough was compulsorily notifiable from January 1st, 1913, to December 31st, 1917, the numbers of
cases notified beingas follows:-1913 1,428; 1915, 1,389; 1915. 1.607; 1916, 1,576; and 1917, 902. Measles and German Measles
became compulsorily notifiable on January ist, 1916, acute encephalitis lethargica on Januaiy 1st, 1919, and malaria, dysentery,
pneumonia (acute primary and acute influenzal), and trench fever on March ist, 1919.
N.B.—of the originally notified during 1925, the following were found afterwards not to be suffering from the diseases notified
Diphtheria,8;paratyphoid, 1: and poliomyelitis acuta, 1, and are not included in the above table.
†Including 15 cases of paratyphoid fever.
‡Including 1 case of post-basic meningitis.
§Including 4 cases of polio-encephalitis acuta.