Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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Respiratory | 344 | (339) |
Non-respiratory | 25 | (34) |
Deaths certified | 135 | (152) |
The notifications per 1,000 population for the past six years
(1943-8) have been 2.21, 2.28, 2.24, 1.16, 1.68, 1.63.
Scarlet Fever | 371 | (331) |
Diphtheria | 46 | (73) |
Erysipelas | 57 | (32) |
Puerperal Fever | 2 | (4) |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 19 | (28) |
Cerebro-spinal Fever | 8 | (14) |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 12 | (11) |
Measles | 2,250 | (875) |
Whooping Cough | 590 | ( 615) |
Primary Pneumonia | 65 | ( 64) |
Influenzal Pneumonia | 17 | ( 31) |
Malaria | 5 | ( 4) |
Dysentery | 9 | (8) |
Food Poisoning | 57 | ( 32) |
Anthrax | — | ( -) |
Scabies | 125 | ( 310) |
Typhoid | 2 | (2) |
Paratyphoid | 3 | ( -) |
Polio-Myelitis | 7 | ( 68) |
Polio-Encephalitis | — | (2) |
Encephalitis Lethargica | — | (1) |