London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lambeth 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
This page requires JavaScript
84
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, 1914.
Number of Notices served 15,109
A. COMPULSORILY NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
(Public Health (London) Act.)
No. of Notices served 4066
No. of Infected Houses 3450
Smallpox —
Scarlet Fever 1553
Typhoid 42
Typhus —
Continued Fever 2
Diphtheria 493
Membranous Croup 6
Puerperal Fever 23
Erysipelas 229
English Cholera —
Cerebro-Spinal Fever 5
Acute Polio-Myelitis 10
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 57
Whooping Congh 1030