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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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The distribution of the disease in the different new Registration Sub-Districts of the Borough of Lambeth, together with the numbers of deaths amongst both hospital-, and home-treated patients, etc., during 1910, are as follows:—
| New Registration Sub-Districts. | Total No. of Cases Notified. | Cases treated at Home. | Cases removed to Hospital. | No. of Deaths. | Case Mortality per 100. | Rate of Persons Notified per 1000 Inhabitants. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Home. | In Hospital. | Total. | ||||||
| Waterloo | 48 | 1 | 47 | — | 2 | 2 | 4.2 | 1.9 |
| Lambeth Church | 48 | 2 | 46 | — | 5 | 5 | 10.4 | 1.8 |
| Kennington | 58 | 2 | 56 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 12.1 | 1.05 |
| Stockwell | 53 | 3 | 50 | — | 4 | 4 | 7.5 | 0.8 |
| Brixton | 71 | 8 | 63 | — | 4 | 4 | 5.6 | 0.9 |
| Norwood | 40 | 15 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7.5 | 0.6 |
| Borough of Lambeth | 318 | 31 | 287 | 2 | 23 | 25 | 7.9 | 0.9 |
Rate of persons notified per 1,000 inhabitants—1.2 Inner
Districts, and 0.8 Outer Districts.
Of the 287 removed to Hospital, 58.2 per cent. were
from the Inner, and 41.8 per cent. from the Outer, Districts.
377 swabs from suspected diphtheria throats were examined
at the Bacteriological Laboratory during 1910, and,
of these, 39, i.e., 10.3 per cent., showed the presence of the
true Klebs-Lœffler (diphtheria) bacilli (vide page 206).
Outbreak of Nasal Diphtheria in Hospital.
An outbreak of Nasal Diphtheria (2 cases) occurred in
1910 (April), in the Medical Children's Ward of St.
Thomas' Hospital, and was proved to be connected with
an unrecognised case, a case of empyema—post mortem