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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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| Age Groups | DISEASE | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Acute Poliomyelitis | Measles | Diphtheria | Dysentery | Meningococcal Infection | Scabies | TOTALS | |||||||||||
| Paralytic | Non-Paralytic | ||||||||||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | ||
| Under 1 year | 1 | - | 4 | 12 | - | - | - | - | 19 | 23 | - | - | 8 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 69 |
| 1 year | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | - | 1 | - | - | 45 | 53 | - | - | 4 | 7 | - | - | - | 2 | 132 |
| 2 years | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | - | - | - | - | 36 | 36 | - | - | 5 | 8 | - | - | - | - | 109 |
| 3 years | 4 | 6 | 16 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 27 | 36 | - | - | 6 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 101 |
| 4 years | 13 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | 48 | 41 | - | - | 6 | 3 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 134 |
| 5-9 years | 52 | 36 | 21 | 30 | 1 | - | - | - | 113 | 107 | - | - | 25 | 7 | - | - | 1 | 5 | 398 |
| 10-14 years | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | - | - | 5 | 5 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 37 |
| 15-24 years | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 5 | 4 | - | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | 5 | 6 | 30 |
| 25 and over | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 14 | 15 | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 40 |
| TOTALS | 88 | 65 | 61 | 71 | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | 298 | 302 | 1 | - | 76 | 52 | 1 | - | 13 | 16 | 1050 |
| Age Groups | Pneumonia | Typhoid Fever | Acute Encephalitis (Infective) | Erysipel as | Food Poisoning | Puerperal Pyrexia | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Malaria | TOTALS | ||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | ||||
| Under 5 years | 4 | 7 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 7 | 5 | - | 4 | 3 | - | - | 32 | |||
| 5-14 years | 4 | 5 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 7 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 22 | |||
| 15-44 years | 19 | 13 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | - | 70 | - | - | - | - | 126 | ||
| 45-64 years | 26 | 12 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 49 | ||
| 65 and over | 17 | 7 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 29 | ||
| TOTALS | 70 | 44 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 6 | 5 | 30 | 22 | - | 70 | 4 | 3 | - | 1 | 258 | ||
| GRAND TOTAL | 1308 | ||||||||||||||||||