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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 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]

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Table: TABLE K.Shewing the number of Certificates for the Notifiable Zymotic Diseases received in the Borough of Lambeth during 1908, and in the old Parish of Lambeth for the ten years 1891-1900.

TABLE K.

Shewing the number of Certificates for the Notifiable Zymotic Diseases received in the Borough of Lambeth during 1908, and in the old Parish of Lambeth for the ten years 1891-1900.

Disease.Parish of Lambeth.Annual Average of 10 yrs. 1801 — 1900 (Parish).Borough of Lambeth. Notifications received during1908.
1891189218931894189518961897189818991900
Smallpox322992651162-1-22.0-
Cholera42623101661873211.5-
Diphtheria3305047895216146527018131080844715.1320
Membranous Croup294749262327171622626.212
Erysipelas258420587315355352325294330234347.0206
Scarlet Fever858183222751198138915501375100910068211331.31428
Typhus1332-1--1-1.1-
Typhoid or Enteric149117160268201162185163219272189663
Continued or Relapsing333458482016111371725.73
Puerperal1120271913192614241318.910
*Plague------------
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis-----------14
Totals16763025407024332685280126632329269322092658.42056
Average per 1000 of population6.110.914.58.69.49.58.97.78.77.19.046.4

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The Health Department has also heard of, and dealt with the following non-notifiable infectious
diseases:—Chicken-pox, 602; Measles, 1504; Whooping Cough, 319; Consumption, 749; Cancer, 30; other
diseases (e.g., Mumps, Ringworm, Influenza, Pneumonia, etc.), 32.
*Plague was made notifiable on September 19th, 1900.