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Lambeth 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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| *§Poliomyelitis acuta | 6 | 6.0 | 7.3 | — | — |
| *Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 53 | 55.2 | 72.8 | — | — |
| *Whooping Cough | — | — | 1380.4 | — | — |
| *Measles | 5,149 | 1897.0 | 2354.2 | — | — |
| *German Measles | 223 | 3920 | 635.4 | — | — |
| *Tuberculosis— | |||||
| Pulmonary (primary) | 446 | 491.6 | 1112 .4 | — | — |
| Non.pulmonary (primary) | 101 | 101.4 | 323.7 | — | — |
| *Chickenpox | — | — | — | — | — |
| *Malaria | 6 | 8.0 | 59.5 | — | —. |
| *Dysentery | 1 | 0.4 | 7.0 | — | — |
| *Primary Pneumonia (Acute) | 108 | 175.2 | 161.5 | — | — |
| *Influenzal Pneumonia (Acute) | 114 | 76.6 | I 26 .0 | — | — |
| *Encephalitis Lethargica (Acu:e) | 14 | 14.2 | 7.0 | — | — |
| *Trench Fever | — | 0.2 | 0.0 | — | — |
| * Anthrax (human) | — | 0. 2 | O.l | — | — |
*Plague was made compulsorily notifiable on September 19th, 1900; cerebro spinal fever on March 12th, 1907; glanders (human),
anthrax (human), and hydrophobia (human), on April 26th, 1909; polio.myelitis and polio.encephalitis acula 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 non.
pulmonary) on February 1st, 1913. Chicken.pox was compulsorily notifiable as follows:—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 June 30th), and 1918
(March 27th to June 30th. j Whooping Cough was compulsorily notifiable from January 1st, 1913, to December 31st, 1917, the numbers of
cases notified being as follows: —1913, 1,428; 1914, 1,389; 1915, 1,607; 1916, 1,576; and 1917, 902. Measles and German Measles
became compulsorily notifiable on January 1st, 1916, acute encephalitis lethargica on Januaiy 1st, 1919, and malaria, dysentery,
pneumonia (acute primary and acute influenzal), and trench fever on March 1st, 1919. Puerperal pyrexia became compulsorily notifiable
on October, 1st 1926, under the Public Health (Notification of Pueperal Pyrexia and Puerperal Fever) Regulations, 1926.
N.B.—Of the patients originally notified during 1926, the following were found afterwards not to be suffering from the diseases notified
—Diphtheria, 1 ; Scarlet Fever, I ; Puerperal Fever, 2 : and Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, I ; and are not included in the above table.
_ + Including 3 cases of paratyphoid fever.
J Including 1 case of post.basic meningitis.
j Including 1 case of polio.encephalitis acuta.