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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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NOTIFICATIONS (CORRECTED)
| Disease | 1st Quarter | 2nd Quarter | 3rd Quarter | 4th Quarter | Totals | Grand Total | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 24 | 22 | 20 | 14 | 19 | 12 | 25 | 17 | 88 | 65 | 153 |
| Whooping Cough | 10 | 13 | 16 | 12 | 18 | 22 | 17 | 24 | 61 | 71 | 132 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Non-Paralytic | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Measles | 17 | 22 | 95 | 96 | 124 | 115 | 62 | 69 | 298 | 302 | 600 |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Dysentery | 9 | 7 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 10 | 39 | 21 | 76 | 52 | 128 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 24 | 19 | 29 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 70 | 44 | 114 |
| Acute Encephalitis (Infective) | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 |
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| Food Poisoning | 9 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 30 | 22 | 52 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | 35 | - | 11 | - | 14 | - | 10 | - | 70 | 70 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Scabies | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 29 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
| TOTALS | 99 | 128 | 190 | 162 | 193 | 195 | 171 | 170 | 653 | 655 | 1308 |