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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 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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DISINFECTION STATISTICS. For eight years prior, and twenty-two years subsequent, to the passing of the Notification of Infectious Diseases Act; and for the year 1912.
| Yearly average for 8 years preceding the Notification Act, 1882-1889 (Parish). | Yearly average for 11 years succeeding the Notification Act, 1S90-1900 (Parish). | Yearly average for 11 years succeeding the Notification Act, 1901-10 & 1906-11 (Borough) | 1912. | |||
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| 1901-5. | 1906-11. | |||||
| No. of Cases in which | At Home | 142.8 | 240.8 | 16.6 | 1303.3* | 2003 |
| Bedding, etc., has been disinfected | At Chamber | 452.8 | 2333.3 | 2337.0 | 2911.7 | 2656 |
| No. of Cases in which Bedding, etc., has been destroyed | 45.7 | 121.6 | 74.2 | 47.5 | 467 | |
| No. of Articles of Bedding, etc, disinfected | 2253.2 | 15600.4 | 34632.4 | 23077.7 | 19315 | |
| No. of Articles of Bedding, etc., destroyed . | 113.0 | 489.4 | 710.0 | 306.0 | 467 | |
| Premises disinfected and disinfectants supplied | 916.8 | 6191.7 | 11738.4 | 12933.7 | 16554 | |
| Infectious diseases dealt with | Notifiable | ... | 2408.5 | 2335.2 | 1903.0 | 1332 |
| Non-notifiable | ... | 299.3 | 2260.8 | 3873.8 | 5292 | |
| * This number is increased for 1906, 1907. 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911, on account ot bedding no longer being removed to the Disinfection Station as a routine in connection with Measles, Whooping Cough and Chicken-pox. N.B.—The Statistics for 1901-1912 refer to the present Borough Council ; those for all previous years to the late Vestry, | ||||||