London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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| Notifications: | Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population:— | ||||
| Typhoid Fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Cerebro Spinal Fever | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.05 |
| Scarlet Fever | 2.40 | 2.41 | 2.67 | 1.57 | 2.13 |
| Whooping Cough | 2.49 | 2.49 | 2.29 | 2.90 | 2.09 |
| Diphtheria | 0.58 | 0.67 | 0.69 | 0.31 | 0.39 |
| Erysipelas | 0.29 | 0.32 | 0.28 | 0.37 | 0.33 |
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - |
| Measles | 4.16 | 4.51 | 3.94 | 2.98 | 2.61 |
| Pneumonia | 0.97 | 1.13 | 0.82 | 0.93 | 0.44 |
| Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live and Still):— | |||||
| (a) Notifications:— | |||||
| Puerperal Fever | 10.34 | 13.13 | 9.25 | 3.61 | 3.65 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 14.14* | 9.97 | |||
| * Including Puerperal Fever. | |||||