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Lambeth 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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In London, during 1907, there were registered 189 deaths
(uncorrected) out of a total of 4511 cases of Erysipelas notified,
giving a casemortality of 4.2 per cent, (uncorrected).
The advantages from the notification of Erysipelas are Ifew,
and the majority of cases notified as Erysipelas are not such as
were contemplated by the framers of the Notification Act.
The details as to the incidence of the two diseases, Puerperal
Fever and Erysipelas, in the different New Registration Sub.
districts of Lambeth Borough during 1 907 are as follow :—
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