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Lambeth 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]

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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, 1925.
Number of Notices served 14,052*
A. COMPULSORILY NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES†
(Public Health (London) Act, 1891).
No. of Notices served 4285
No. of Infected Houses 3904
Small Pox c1
Scarlet Fever 940
Typhoid and Para-typhoid Fever† 15
Diphtheria 751
Membranous Croup 5
Continued Fever1
Puerperal Fever 27
Erysipelas 126
Cerebro-Spinal Fever and Post-Basic Meningitis § 3
Acute Polio-Myelitis §§ 6
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 36
Measles 723
German Measles 1001
Primary Pneumonia 157
Influenzal Pneumonia 87
Encephalitis Lethargica 17
Malaria 8
Dysentery —
Trench Fever —
Anthrax —
B. GENERAL NUISANCES AND DRAINAGE DEFECTS.
(Public Health (London) Act, and Metropolis Local Management
Acts).
No. of Notices served*† 9746
Works, Structural—
Drainage, Defective 211
Intercepting Traps with Fresh Air Inlets required, or
defective 126
* Including Measles and German Measles, but excluding notices under the
Housing Acts,
† Excluding Tuberculosis.
‡4 cases of Para-typhoid.
§ 2 cases of Cerebro spinal Fever and 1 case of Post-basic meningitis.
§§ 4 cases of Polio-encephalitis acuta, and 2 cases of Polio-myelitis acuta.