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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 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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| Age Groups | Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic | Measles | Dysentery | Meningococcal Infection | Scabies | TOTALS | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | ||
| Under 1 year | 2 | - | 5 | 14 | - | - | 67 | 74 | 4 | 8 | 3 | - | - | - | 177 |
| 1 year | 2 | 1 | 7 | 15 | 1 | - | 216 | 213 | 3 | 10 | - | - | - | - | 468 |
| 2 years | 4 | 2 | 6 | 10 | - | 1 | 247 | 264 | 5 | 11 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 552 |
| 3 years | 9 | 5 | 11 | 6 | - | - | 261 | 237 | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 536 |
| 4 years | 4 | 9 | 5 | 3 | - | - | 234 | 226 | 2 | 5 | - | - | - | 2 | 490 |
| 5- 9 years | 23 | 29 | 18 | 14 | - | - | 669 | 638 | 15 | 10 | - | 1 | - | - | 1417 |
| 10 - 14 years | 8 | 8 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 25 | 35 | 7 | 2 | - | 1 | 4 | 2 | 96 |
| 15 - 24 years | 3 | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | 15 | 19 | 4 | 10 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 61 |
| 25 years and over | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 8 | 14 | 7 | 17 | - | - | 6 | 3 | 57 |
| TOTALS | 55 | 60 | 53 | 66 | 1 | 1 | 1742 | 1720 | 50 | 77 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 3854 |
| Age Groups | Pneumonia | Enteric or Typhoid Fever | Paratyphoid Fevers | Erysipelas | Food Poisoning | Puerperal Pyrexia | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | TOTALS | |||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | ||
| Under 5 years | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 5 | 1 | 12 |
| 5-14 years | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 8 |
| 15 - 44 years | 10 | 10 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | - | 73 | - | - | 110 |
| 45 - 64 years | 10 | 11 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 24 |
| 65 years and over | 7 | 8 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 |
| TOTALS | 32 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 4 | 8 | 8 | - | 73 | 5 | 1 | 170 |
| GRAND TOTAL | 4024 | ||||||||||||||