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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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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Tuberculosis
Notifications received during the year ended
31st December, 1954.
Respiratory 352 (318)
Non-respiratory 17 (29)
Deaths certified 41 (53)
The notifications per 1,000 population for the past ten years
(1944-54) have been: 2.28, 2.24, 1. 16, 1.68, 1.63, 2.01. 1.87.
1.86, 1.55, 1.52. 1.63. During the Good Health Exhibition at the
Town Hall in May 336 people were X rayed resulting in the discovery
of two previously unknown cases of respiratory tuberculosis.
Notifications received during the Year ended
31st December, 1954.
Scarlet Fever 133 (173)
Diphtheria - ( - )
Erysipelas 14 (15)
Puerperal Pyrexia 148 (66)
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 4 (4)
Measles 482 (1303)
Whooping Cough 321 (784)
Primary Pneumonia 134 (189)
Influenzal Pneumonia
Mai aria (relapse) 2 (11)
" (indigenous) - (2)
Dysentery 84 (59)
Food Poisoning 154 (130)
Scabies 48 (30)
Typhoid 1 (1)
Polio-Myelitis (Paralytic) 4 (13)
.. (Non-Paralytic) 2 (5)
Polioencephalitis - (-)
Meningococcal Infection 6 (7)
Encephalitis (Infectious) - (1)
(Post-Infective) - (1)