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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 1913

[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 I.ambeth, from the 1st January to the 31st
December, 1 ft] 3.
Number of Notices served 14,397.
A. COMPULSORIL Y NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
(Pubic Health (London) Act.)
No. of Notices served 3531
No. of Infected Houses 2972
Smallpox —
Scarlet Fever 1227
Typhoid 34
Typhus —
Continued Fever 2
Diphtheria 365
Membranous Croup 7
Puerperal Fever ... . 25
Erysipelas ... 206
English Cholera —
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 7
Acute Polio-Myelitis 6
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 56
Whooping Cough ... 1037