[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough] page 81

Lambeth 1935

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

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Table: TABLE J. Statistics of Notifiable Diseases.

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TABLE J. Statistics of Notifiable Diseases.

	Cases notified	Attack-rate per 1,000	Deaths registered	Case mortality per 100	Cases removed to hospital	Per cent, of cases removed	Infected houses	Annual Average of cases notified 1921-1930
									Cholera	_	_		_
									Smallpox	—	—	—		—	-	-	17.4
									Scarlet Fever	865	3.09	—	—	807	93.29	750	1056.5
									Diphtheria	457	1.63	16	3.50	455	99.58	424	732.3
Membranous Croup	2	0.007	—.	—	2	100.00	2	2.9
Typhus	—	—	—	-—	—	—	—	—
Enteric	4	0.01	1	25.00	4	100.00	4	184
Relapsing Fever	—	—		—	—	—	—
Erysipelas	130	0.46	9	6.92	72	55.38	130	123.2
Puerperal Fever	24	0.85	4	16.67	12	50.00	23	28.7
Puerperal Pyrexia	44	0.15	6	13.64	4	9.09	44	48.8
Plague	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Cerebro-Spinal Fever	3	0.01	2	66.67	3	100.00	3	6.3
*Poli-mvelitis	10	0.03	—	—	10	100.00	10	5.4
Ophthalmia Neonatorum	41	0.14	—	—	2	4.88	41	56.2
Measles	168	0.60	2	1.19	41	24.40	153	2532.6
German Measles	118	0.42	—	—	2	1.69	117	425.1
Tuberculosis—
Pulmonary (primary)	380	1.35	196	—	—	—	—	507.6
Non-pulmonary (primary)	87	0.31	22	—	—	—	—	104.3
Malaria	2	0.007	—	—	2	100.00	2	6.2
Dysentery	5	0.01	—	—	5	100.00	4	1.3
Primary Pneumonia (Acute)	148	0.52	51	34.46	72	48.65	145	228.2
Influenzal Pneumonia (Acute)	72	0.25	8	11.11	8	11.11	71	123.0
† Encephalitis Lethargica	2	0.007	3	—	2	100.00	2	11.1
Trench Fever	—	—-	—	—	—	—	—	—
Anthrax	1	0.003	1	—	1	100.00	1	0.2
Food Poisoning	18	0.04			1	5.56	18
* Including 1 case of Polio Encephalitis. t Including 1 death from Post Encephalitis Lethargica. : Compulsorily notifiable from September, 1932. N.B.—Of the cases originally notified during 1935, the following were found afterwards not to be suffering from the diseases notified :—Diphtheria, 55 ; Scarlet Fever, 37 ; Measles, 10 ; Membranous Croup, 1.