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Lambeth 1927
[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 1927, together with the averages for the three decennia 1891-1900 (Parish), 1901-1910 (Borough), and 1911-1920 (Borough), and the quinquennium 1921-25 (Borough).
| Disease. | 1927 | Annual Average, 1921-25 (Borough) 5 years. | Annual Average, 1911-1920 (Borough) 10 years. | Annual Average, 1901-1910 (Borough) 10 years. | Annual Average, 1891-1900 (Parish) 10 years. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cholera | - | - | 0.1 | 0.2 | 11.5 |
| Smallpox | — | 0.6 | 0.2 | 49.9 | 22.0 |
| Scarlet Fever | 659 | 1184.6 | 904.1 | 1105.1 | 1331.3 |
| Diphtheria | 767 | 636.6 | 482.7 | 379. | 715.1 |
| Membranous Croup | 2 | 3. | 5. | 10. | 26.2 |
| Typhus | — | — | 0. | 0. | 1.1 |
| †Typhoid or Enteric | 23 | 15.2 | 31.9 | 100.5 | 189.6 |
| Continued and Relapsing | — | 0.2 | 0.8 | 4.1 | 25.7 |
| Erysipelas | 128 | 115.8 | 175.0 | 241.4 | 347.0 |
| Puerperal | 22 | 31.4 | 21.8 | 17.0 | 18.9 |
| *Puerperal Pyrexia | 57 | — | — | — | — |
| *Plague | — | — | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| *‡Cerebro-spinal Fever | 7 | 6.2 | 18.2 | 11.5 | |
| *Poliomyelitis acuta | 7 | 60 | 7.3 | - | - |
| *Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 55 | 55.2 | 72.8 | - | - |
| *Whooping Cough | - | - | 1380.4 | - | - |
| *Measles | 940 | 1897.0 | 2354.2 | — | — |
| *German Measles | 133 | 392.0 | 635.4 | — | — |
| 1Tuberculosis— | |||||
| Pulmonary (primary) | 471 | 491.6 | 1112.4 | - | - |
| Non-pulmonary (primary) | 100 | 101.4 | 323.7 | — | — |
| *Chickenpox | — | — | - | - | - |
| *Malaria | 5 | 8.0 | 59.5 | - | - |
| *Dysentery | - | 0.4 | 7.0 | - | - |
| *Primary Pneumonia (Acute) | 295 | 175.2 | 161.5 | - | - |
| *Influenzal Pneumonia (Acute) | 203 | 76.6 | 126.0 | - | - |
| *Encephalitis Lethargica (Acute) | 7 | 14.2 | 7.0 | - | - |
| *Trench Fever | - | 0.2 | 0.0 | - | - |
| *Anthrax (human) | 1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | - | - |
* 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 acuta on
September 1st, 1911; opthalmia 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). 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 January 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 Puerperal Pyrexia and Puerperal Fever) Regulations, 1926.
N.B.—Of the patients originally notified during 1927, the following were found afterwards not to be suffering from the diseases
notified :—Diphtheria, 3 ; Scarlet Fever, 3 ; Puerperal Fever, 3 ; Puerperal Pyrexia, 5 ; and " Typhoid " Fever, 2 ; and are not
included in the above table.
† Including 2 cases of paratyphoid fever.
‡ Including 1 case of post-basic meningitis.