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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 of Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1908, in the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth, classified according to
Diseases and Localities.
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| New Registration Sub-Districts. | Population at all Ages. | Registered Births 1908. | New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during 1908. | Number of such Cases removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital during 1908. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Census 1901. | Estimated to middle of 1908. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||
| Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous, Croup. | Fevers. | Fevers. | Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. | Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Typhus. | Fevers. | Puerperal. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Cerebrospinal Meningitis. | |||||||||||
| Typhus. | Typhoid or Enteric. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | ||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Waterloo | 27440 | 26085 | 1613 | - | 69 | 40 | 2 | - | 5 | - | - | 1 | - | 19 | 3 | - | 69 | 38 | 2 | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | 9 | 2 |
| Lambeth Church | 27440* | 26641 | 785 | 106 | 27 | - | - | 7 | 1 | - | - | - | 27 | 3 | - | 86 | 27 | - | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | 10 | 3 | |
| Kennington | 52518* | 54729 | 1548 | - | 207 | 67 | 2 | - | is | 1 | - | - | - | 53 | 7 | - | 202 | 67 | 1 | - | 11 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 19 | 7 |
| Stockwell | 63826 | 67273 | 2103 | - | 4«3 | 78 | 3 | - | 8 | - | - | 4 | - | 42 | - | - | 435 | 71 | 3 | - | '8 | - | - | 1 | - | 15 | - |
| Brixton | 73673 | 81252 | 1674 | - | 357 | 56 | 5 | - | 18 | 1 | - | 4 | - | 49 | 1 | - | 325 | 44 | 3 | - | 18 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 9 | 1 |
| Norwood | 56998 | 65364 | 1183 | - | 226 | 52 | - | - | 12 | - | - | 1 | - | 16 | - | - | 186 | 36 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 | - |
| Totals | 301895 | 321344 | 8906 | - | 1428 | 320 | 12 | - | 63 | 3 | - | 10 | - | 206 | 14 | - | 1303 | 283 | 9 | - | 48 | 2 | - | 5 | - | 66 | 13 |
| *The Census 1901 populations tor Lambeth Church and Kennington New Sub-Districts are approximate only. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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