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Lambeth 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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II—SANITARY WORK
(Dealing with the sanitary circumstances and administration
of the Borough of Lambeth.)
Return shewing the number of Notices served in the
Borough of Lambeth, from the 1st January to the 31st
December, 1912.
Number of Notices served 12,506
A. COMPULSORILY NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
(Public Health, London, Act.)
No. of Notices served 1332
No. of Infected Houses 1242
Smallpox -
Scarlet Fever 538
Typhoid 61
Typhus —
Continued Fever 1
Diphtheria 311
Membranous Croup 5
Puerperal Fever 24
Erysipelas 210
English Cholera -
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 7
Acute Polo-myelitis 10
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 75