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 K.
Shewing the number of Certificates for the Notifiable Zymotic Diseases received in Lambeth since the introduction of the Notification Act,
Disease. | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | Annual average of 10 years 1890—99 | Notifications received during 00 Lambeth. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-Pox | 15 | 3 | 22 | 99 | 26 | 51 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 23.5 | — |
Cholera | 7 | 4 | 26 | 23 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 12.0 | 2 |
Diphtheria | 330 | 330 | 504 | 789 | 521 | 614 | 652 | 704 | 813 | 1080 | 663.7 | 844 |
Membranous Croup | 46 | 29 | 47 | 49 | 26 | 23 | 27 | 17 | 16 | 22 | 30.2 | 6 |
Erysipelas | 248 | 258 | 420 | 587 | 315 | 355 | 352 | 325 | 294 | 330 | 348.4 | 234 |
Scarlet Fever | 26 | 858 | 1832 | 2275 | 1198 | 1389 | 1550 | 1375 | 1009 | 1006 | 1361.8 | 821 |
Typhus | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.1 | — |
Typhoid or Enteric | 150 | 149 | 117 | 160 | 268 | 201 | 162 | 185 | 163 | 219 | 177.4 | 272 |
Continued or Relapsing | 41 | 33 | 34 | 58 | 48 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 28.1 | 17 |
Puerperal | 13 | 11 | 20 | 27 | 19 | 16 | 19 | 26 | 14 | 24 | 18.9 | 13 |
Totals | 1976 | 1676 | 3025 | 4070 | 2433 | 2685 | 2801 | 2663 | 2329 | 2693 | 2635.1 | 2209 |
Average per 1000 of population | 7.2 | 6.1 | 10.9 | 14.5 | 8.6 | 9.4 | 9.5 | 8.9 | 7.7 | 8.7 | 9.1 | 7.1 |
The Health Department has also Board of, and dealt with, the following non-notifiable infectious diseases
Measles,941; Whooping Cough, 126 ; Chicken Pox, 88; Consumption, 524,