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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 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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Tuberculosis
Notifications received during the year ended
31st December, 1952.
Respiratory 323 (396)
Non-respiratory 34 (31)
Deaths certified 65 (103)
The notifications per 1,000 population for the past ten years
(1943-52) have been 2.21, 2.28, 2.24, 1.16, 1.68. 1.63, 2.01,
1.87, 1.86, 1.55.
Notifications received during the Year ended
31st December, 1952.
Scarlet Fever 257 (235)
Diphtheria - (5)
Erysipelas 27 (21)
Puerperal Pyrexia 73 (72)
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 8 (11)
Measles 2,366 (3.124)
Whooping Cough 305 (608)
Primary Pneumonia 125 (77)
Influenzal Pneumonia
Malaria (relapse) (1)
Dysentery 38 (83)
Food Poisoning 49 (47)
Scabies 36 (43)
Typhoid (1)
Paratyphoid 1 (1)
Paralytic 13 (6)
Polio-Myelitis
Non-Paralytic 5 (6)
Polioencephalitis (1)
Meningococcal Infection 8 (7)
Encephalitis (Infectious) 2 (-)
,, (Post-Infective) 1 (-)