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Lambeth 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE K.
Shewing the number of Certificates for the Notifiable Zymotic Diseases received in the Borough of Lambeth during 1910, and in the old Parish of Lambeth for the ten years 1891-1900.
| Disease. | Parish of Lambeth. | Annual Average of to years 1891 -1900 (Parish). | Borough of Lambeth Notifications received during 1910. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | |||
| Smallpox | 3 | 22 | 99 | 26 | 51 | 16 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 22.0 | - |
| Cholera | 4 | 26 | 23 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 11.5 | - |
| Diphtheria | 330 | 504 | 789 | 521 | 614 | 652 | 704 | 813 | 1080 | 844 | 715.1 | 318 |
| Membranous Croup | 29 | 47 | 49 | 26 | 23 | 27 | 17 | 16 | 22 | 6 | 26.2 | 6 |
| Erysipelas | 258 | 420 | 587 | 315 | 355 | 352 | 325 | 294 | 330 | 234 | 347.0 | 192 |
| Scarlet Fever | 858 | 1832 | 2275 | 1198 | 1389 | 1550 | 1375 | 1009 | 1006 | 821 | 1331.3 | 910 |
| Typhus | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | 1 | — | - | 1 | — | 1.1 | — |
| Typhoid or Enteric | 149 | 117 | 160 | 268 | 201 | 162 | 185 | 163 | 219 | 272 | 189.6 | 77 |
| Continued or Relapsing | 33 | 34 | 58 | 48 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 17 | 25.7 | 1 |
| Puerperal | 11 | 20 | 27 | 19 | 16 | 19 | 26 | 14 | 24 | 13 | 18.9 | 18 |
| *Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 |
| Totals | 1676 | 3025 | 4070 | 2433 | 2685 | 2801 | 2663 | 2329 | 2693 | 2209 | 2658.4 | 1527 |
| Average per 1000 of population | 6 1 | 10 9 | 14.5 | 86 | 9.4 | 9.5 | 8.9 | 7.7 | 8.7 | 7.1 | 9.04 | 4.7† |
The Health Department has also heard of, and dealt with, the following non-notifiable infectious diseases
during 1910:—Chicken-pox, 634; Measles, 2123; Whooping Cough, 686; Tuberculosis, 1019; Cancer, 39; other
diseases [e.g., Mumps, Influenza, Pneumonia, Scabies, Gangrene, Dropsy, etc.), 210.
*Plague was made notifiable on September 19th, 1900. †Inner Districts, 5.4. Outer Districts, 4.1.