Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, The Vestry of the Parish of]
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TABLE J.
Shewing the number of Certificates for the Notifiable Zymotic Diseases received in Lambeth since the introduction of the Notification Act,
Disease. | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | Annual average of 6 years 1890-95. | Notifications received during 96. | |
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Lambeth. | London. | |||||||||
Small-Pox | 0 | 15 | 3 | 22 | 99 | 26 | 51 | 36.0 | 16 | 304 |
Cholera | 0 | 7 | 4 | 26 | 23 | 10 | 16 | 14.3 | 6 | 13 |
Diphtheria | 286 | 330 | 330 | 504 | 789 | 521 | 614 | 514.7 | 652 | 13941 |
Membranous Croup | 0 | 46 | 29 | 47 | 49 | 26 | 23 | 36.6 | 27 | |
Erysipelas | 92 | 24S | 258 | 420 | 587 | 315 | 355 | 363.8 | 352 | 6438 |
Scarlet Fever | 879 | 1126 | 858 | 1832 | 2275 | 1198 | 1339 | 1446.3 | 1550 | 25676 |
Typhus | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1.5 | 1 | 6 |
Typhoid or Enteric | 64 | 150 | 149 | 117 | 160 | 268 | 201 | 174.2 | 162 | 3200 |
Continued or Relapsing | 0 | 41 | 33 | 34 | 58 | 48 | 20 | 39.0 | 16 | 106 |
Puerperal | 15 | 13 | 11 | 20 | 27 | 19 | 16 | 17.7 | 19 | 279 |
Totals | 1336 | 1976 | 1676 | 3025 | 4070 | 2433 | 2685 | 2644.2 | 2801 | 49963 |
Average per 1,000 of population | 4.9 | 7.2 | 6.1 | 10.9 | 14.5 | 8.6 | 9.4 | 9.4 | 9.5 | 11.08 |
N.B.—The 1889 Column represents only two months, the Notification Act coming into force on October 31st, 1889.