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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 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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DISINFECTION STATISTICS.
For tight years prior, and twenty years subsequent, to the passing of the Notification of Infectious Diseases
Act; and for the year 1910.
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
Yearly average
for 8 years preceding
the Notification
Act.
1910
No. of Cases in
which Bedding,
etc., has been
disinfected
At Home
332
258
278
10
62
52
7
144
142.8
1544§
At Chamber
85
56
162
509
236
722
902
951
452.8
2355
No. of Cases in
which Bedding,
etc., has been
destroyed.
37
23
62
52
8
57
48
79
45.7
70
No. of Articles of
Bedding, etc.,
disinfected.
1526
1437
1895
2275
916
3078
3121
3778
2253.2
21087
No.of Articles of
Bedding, etc.,
destroyed.
63
104
114
144
59
92
61
267
113.0
445
Premises disinfected
and disintectants
supplied.
727
680
657
727
736
1276
1255
1277
916.8
13 55
Infectious diseases
dealt
with.
Notifiable†
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
1527
Non-notifiable†
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4501
vide footnote on page 165.
§ vide footnote on page 165.