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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 1959
[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 | 25 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 16 | 33 | 34 | 91 | 86 | 177 |
| Whooping Cough | 6 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 26 | 25 | 27 | 49 | 72 | 121 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| Non-Paralytic | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| Measles | 691 | 651 | 455 | 406 | 72 | 83 | 15 | 18 | 1233 | 1158 | 2391 |
| Dysentery | 26 | 15 | 33 | 37 | 12 | 23 | 24 | 39 | 95 | 114 | 209 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Pneumonia | 44 | 37 | 6 | 4 | - | 6 | 7 | 8 | 57 | 55 | 112 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Erysipelas | 1 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| Food Poisoning | 4 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 3 | - | 25 | 15 | 40 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | 61 | - | 44 | - | 20 | - | 18 | - | 143 | 143 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 12 | 8 | 20 |
| Scabies | 5 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 22 | 23 | 45 |
| TOTALS | 806 | 815 | 543 | 538 | 131 | 187 | 120 | 150 | 1600 | 1190 | 3290 |