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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Lambeth 1926

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

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TABLE G.

Table: Shewing the total numbers of cases (corrected) of infectious diseases notified comfiulsorilyby Medical Practitioners under the Notification Clauses of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Orders and Regulations made thereunder, in the Borough of Lambeth, during 1926, together with the total numbers of deaths registered from the same diseases, the case mortality per 100 persons for each disease, the numbers of cases (with percentages) removed to hospital, and the numbers of infected houses.

Shewing the total numbers of cases (corrected) of infectious diseases notified comfiulsorilyby Medical Practitioners under the Notification Clauses of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Orders and Regulations made thereunder, in the Borough of Lambeth, during 1926, together with the total numbers of deaths registered from the same diseases, the case mortality per 100 persons for each disease, the numbers of cases (with percentages) removed to hospital, and the numbers of infected houses.

Cases notifiedDeaths registered.Case Mortality per 100.Cases removed to hospital.Per cent. of cases removed.Infected houses.
Cholera--————
Smallpox11100.001100.01
Scarlet Fever74340.5369693.7689
Diphtheria716436.0070598.5630
Membranous Croup9——91OO.O8
Typhus————-—
†Typhoid or Enteric7228.56685.77
Continued and Relapsing Fever——————
Erysipelas8644.6537.43.086
Puerperal Fever341544.113191.235
* Puerperal Pyrexia44-—36.832
* Plague—-————
* Cerebro-Spinal Fever6466.66466.76