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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 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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Tuberculosis
Notifications received during the year ended
31st December, 1951.
Respiratory 396 (400)
Non-respiratory 31 (31)
Deaths certified 103 (100)
The notifications per 1,000 population for the past nine years
( 1943-51) have been 2.21, 2.28, 2.24, 1.16, 1.68, 1.63, 2.01,
1.87, 1.86.
| Scarlet Fever | 235 | (227) |
| Diphtheria | 5 | (6) |
| Erysipelas | 21 | (34) |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 72 | (32) |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 11 | (7) |
| Measles | 3,124 | ( 1,640) |
| Whooping Cough | 608 | (724) |
| Primary Pneumonia | 77 | (63) |
| Influenzal Pneumonia | 44 | (11) |
| Malaria (relapse) | 1 | (2) |
| Dysentery | 83 | (125) |
| Food Poisoning | 47 | (83) |
| Scabies | 43 | (40) |
| Typhoid | 1 | (2) |
| Paratyphoid | 1 | (1) |
| (Paralytic | 6 | (20) |
| Polio-Myelitis (Non-Paralytic | 6 | (7) |
| Polioencephalitis | - | (1) |
| Meningococcal Infection | 7 | (8) |