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Lambeth 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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DISINFECTING DEPARTMENT, 1925.
Details of work done in connection with the Disinfecting Department
are subjoined : 4,860 cases of infectious diseases, notified compulsorily
by medical men, were dealt with, including cerebro-spinal fever
and post-basic meningitis (3), acute polio-myelitis and encephalitis (6),
acute primary pneumonia (159), acute influenzal pneumonia (87), acute
encephalitis lethargica (17), malaria (8), ophthalmia neonatorum (36),
measles (798), eerman measles (1,111), and tuberculosis—-pulmonary
(487), and non-pulmonary (88), whilst the following diseases were, in
addition, reported by school teachers and others, viz.: measles (601),
chicken-pox (1,250), cancer (86), whooping cough (871), and others not
classified (484)*, 369 verminous houses (442 rooms) and 1,384
verminous articles, viz.: bedding 1,332, and clothing 52, were also
dealt with
| Total No. of Rooms disinfected by Council | 8953 |
| I)o. articles do. | 10943 |
| Cases in which bedding was disinfected at hornet | 4998 |
| Do. do. do. at Chamber | 2918 |
| Do. do. do. destroyed | — |
| Premises disinfected and disinfectants supplied | 20083 |
| Articles of bedding, etc., disinfected | 17603 |
| Articles of bedding, etc., destroyed | — |
| Police Ambulance disinfected | 3 |
| No. of Cleansing Notices served in connection with infected houses | 2128 |
| Certificates of Medical Practitioners received in lieu of disinfection by the Council | 11 |
| Schools disinfected‡ (100 rooms) | 9 |
| Certificates of disinfection left with occupiers of disinfected premises | 3138 |
| Library books disinfected (public) | 148 |
| Mattresses re-tabbed by Council | 627 |
* Scabies, ringworm, diseases not stated, etc.
† Bedding not removed to the Disinfecting Chamber for disinfection in cases of
Measles nnd German Measles
‡ Measles, 5 (18 rooms); Scarlet Fever, I (6 rooms); Diphtheria, 2 (62 rooms);
not classified I (14 rooms).
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