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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 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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Tuberculosis
Notifications received during the year ended
31st December, 1950
Respiratory 400 (433)
Non-respiratory 31 (29)
Deaths certified 100 (133)
The notifications per 1,000 population for the past eight years
(1943-50) have been 2.21, 2.28, 2.24, 1.16, 1.68, 1.63, 2.01, 1.87.
Notifications received during the Year ended 31st December, 1950
| Scarlet Fever | 227 | (250) | |
| Diphtheria | 6 | (22) | |
| Erysipelas | 34 | (30) | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 32 | (29) | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 7 | (8) | |
| Measles | 1,640 | (1,538) | |
| Whooping Cough | 724 | (235) | |
| Primary Pneumonia | 63 | (53) | |
| Influenzal Pneumonia | 11 | (42) | |
| Malaria (relapse) | 2 | (1) | |
| Dysentery | 125 | (16) | |
| Food Poisoning | 83 | (41) | |
| Scabies | 40 | (68) | |
| Typhoid | 2 | (1) | |
| Paratyphoid | 1 | (1) | |
| Polio-Myelitis | Paralytic | 20 | (32) |
| Non-Paralytic | 7 | ||
| Polioencephalitis | 1 | (1) | |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | — | (1) | |
| Meningococcal Infection | 8 | (2) | |