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Lambeth 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE I. Shewing the number of Certificates for the Notifiable Zymotic Diseases received in the Borough of Lambeth during 1912, and during the decennium 1901-1910, together with the averages of the two decennia 1891-1900 (Parish) and 1901-1910 (Borough).
| Disease. | Borough of Lambeth. | Annual Average, 1901-1910. (Borough.) | Annual Average 1891-1900 (Parish). | Total. 1912. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | ||||
| Cholera | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.2 | 11.5 | — |
| Smallpox | 54 | 350 | 72 | 23 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 49.9 | 22.0 | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 1041 | 1330 | 744 | 660 | 1025 | 1268 | 1481 | 1428 | 1164 | 910 | 1105.1 | 1331.3 | 604 |
| Diphtheria | 511 | 459 | 329 | 317 | 439 | 415 | 317 | 320 | 373 | 318 | 379.8 | 715.1 | 328 |
| Membranous Croup | 13 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 10.4 | 26.2 | 5 |
| Typhus | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 0.1 | 1.1 | — |
| Typhoid or Enteric | 147 | 213 | 133 | 101 | 77 | 89 | 56 | 63 | 49 | 77 | 100.5 | 189.6 | 61 |
| Continued or Relapsing | 6 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4.1 | 25.7 | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 286 | 317 | 236 | 257 | 287 | 263 | 231 | 206 | 189 | 192 | 241.4 | 347.0 | 216 |
| Puerperal | 16 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 12 | 27 | 22 | 10 | 16 | 18 | 17.0 | 18.9 | 24 |
| *Plague | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| *Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | — | — | — | — | — | — | 13 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 11.5 | — | 7 |
| *Poliomyelitis acuta | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 10 |
| *Ophthalmia Neonatorum | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 76 |
| Totals | 2025 | 2712 | 1547 | 1382 | 1853 | 2074 | 2140 | 2056 | 1809 | 1527 | 1912.5 | 2658.4 | 1332 |
| Average per 1000 of population | 6.7 | 8.9 | 5.03 | 4.5 | 5.9 | 6.6 | 6.6 | 6.4 | 5.6 | 4.7 | 6.1 | 9 04 | 4.5 |
The Health Department has also heard of, and dealt with, the following non-notifiable infectious diseases during 1812
Chicken-pox, 989; Measles, 1595; Whooping Cough, 757; Cancer, 42; other deases (e.g. Mumps influenza Scabies, etc.), 168.
*Plague was made notifiable on September 19th, 1900; Cerebro-Spinal, Menigitis ("Spotted Fever") on March 12th, 1907;
Poliomyelitis acuta on September 1st, 1911; and Ophthalmia Neonatorum on March 13th, 1911.
M.B.-In addition to the above Chicken-pox was notifiable compulsorily as follows:-1902 (Feb. 7th to Dec. 31st), 1903
(Jan. 1st to 6th), 1904 (April 8th to Nov. 8th), and 1911 (March 22nd to June 22nd), the numbers of cases notified being respectively 1560 40 556 and 238.
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