Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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WARD | Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic | Acute Poliomyelitis Non-Paralytic | Measles | Diphtheria | Dysentery | Meningococcal Infection | Scabies | Pneumonia | Acute Encephalitis Infective) | Erysipelas | Food Poisoning | Paratyphoid Fever | Puerperal Pyrexia | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | TOTALS |
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Marsh | 4 | 16 | 1 | - | 14 | - | 59 | - | 1 | 6 | - | 1 | - | - | 34 | 1 | 137 |
Bishop's | 9 | 16 | 1 | - | 31 | 1 | 49 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | . | . | 112 |
Prince's | 9 | 8 | - | 2 | 24 | - | 57 | - | 2 | 4 | . | 1 | 1 | - | 18 | 1 | 127 |
Oval | 7 | 7 | . | * | 16 | 2 | 23 | - | - | 1 | . | 2 | 5 | . | . | . | |
Springfield | 1 | 25 | 1 | - | 7 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | 15 | . | . | 92 | ||
Lansdowne | 9 | 24 | . | - | 13 | 26 | . | . | 3 | . | . | . | . | ||||
Vlinet | - | 9 | . | - | 16 | . | 10 | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | ||
Angell | 3 | 8 | - | - | 40 | . | 7 | . | . | 3 | . | . | . | . | . | 99 | |
Vassal | 2 | 47 | . | . | 21 | . | 18 | . | 2 | 9 | . | . | 1 | . | 66 | ||
Grove | 2 | 36 | . | 10 | . | 9 | 1 | . | 3 | . | 1 | . | . | 58 | |||
Stockwell | 7 | 9 | - | - | 31 | . | 5 | . | . | 3 | . | . | . | 62 | |||
Landor | 5 | 14 | . | . | 30 | . | 9 | . | . | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | 90 | ||
Ferndale | 5 | 21 | . | - | 50 | . | 10 | . | 1 | 2 | . | . | . | . | 46 | ||
Town Hall | 3 | 13 | - | 1 | 21 | 4 | . | - | 2 | ~ | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | 46 | |
Heme Bill | 4 | 8 | - | - | 24 | . | 5 | . | 3 | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | 88 | ||
Effra | 5 | 25 | . | . | 44 | . | 9 | 1 | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | . | ||
Tulse Hill | 4 | 18 | - | - | 77 | . | 2 | . | 2 | 1 | . | . | . | . | |||
Thurlow Park | 5 | . | - | 14 | - | 3 | . | 2 | 1 | . | . | 8 | . | . | |||
LeighaM | 2 | 14 | - | 50 | - | 5 | - | 1 | " | - | 3 | " | ~ | 76 | |||
Knight's Hill | 5 | 26 | - | - | 5 | * | 10 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | ||
Romany | 6 | 13 | - | - | 4 | . | 2 | . | . | - | 1 | • | . | . | |||
TOTALS | 97 | 361 | 4 | 3 | 542 | 3 | 361 | 3 | 17 | 45 | 2 | 9 | 54 | 3 | 61 | 4 | 1569 |