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Lambeth 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Details as to the incidence of the disease during 1910 upon the different New Registration Sub-districts of the Borough of Lambeth are as follow:—
| 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 10000 Inhabitants. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Home. | In Hospital. | Total. | ||||||
| Waterloo | 9 | — | 9 | — | — | — | 0.0 | 4.3 |
| Lambeth Church | 7 | 1 | 6 | — | 3 | 3 | 42.9 | 6.05 |
| Kennington | 28 | — | 23 | — | 5 | 5 | 21.7 | 6.3 |
| Stockwell | 14 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 50.0 | 1.8 |
| Brixton | 15 | 3 | 12 | — | — | — | 0.0 | 1.2 |
| Norwood | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | — | 2 | 22.2 | 0.9 |
| Borough of Lambeth | 77 | 10 | 67 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 22.1 | 2.8 |
Rate of persons notified per 1,000 inhabitants, 0.3 Inner
Districts, and 0.2 Outer Districts.
Of the 67 cases removed to Hospital, 67.2 per cent. were
from the Inner, and 32.8 per cent. from the Outer, Districts.
Of the 71 Typhoid-infected houses 22 (i.e.. 30.9 per cent.)
showed, on inspection, defective drains, traps, fittings or
appliances. In 4 (i.e. 5.6 per cent.), the drains themselves
were found to be defective (i.e. gave a result with the test).
22 cases out of the 77 were traced to sources outside the
Borough, and 9 were secondary cases, i.e., derived from
previous cases (notified or unrecognised) in the Borough.
One case was the result of accidental inoculation at a Bacteriological
Laboratory. No case could be traced definitely
and conclusively to infected ice-creams, water, milk, shellfish,
fried fish or watercress. There was a history in 14
cases of shell-fish (oysters, mussels, or periwinkles, or fried
fish) having been eaten by the patients notified 1 to 3 weeks
previous to the disease developing, though, in this connection,
the number of persons who eat shell fish and fried fish