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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 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]
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TABLE XXXII.
Table showing the number of Cases of Infectious Diseases
attended by each of the Sanitary Inspectors, together with
the number of Infected Houses.
WARDS.
Infected
Houses.
Smalt
Pox.
Measles.
Scarlet
Fever.
Diphtheria.
Typhoid
Fever
Typhus
Fever.
Chicken
Pox.
Diarrhœa
North & South Marsh
I20
31
37
57
I I
15
1
1
3
6
Bishop's & Prince's
283
43
86
52
15
19
-
1
80
1
Vauxhall&Stockwell
254
101
56
66
18
24
-
2
5
2
Urixton & Norwood
179
42
56
65
27
7
-
—
—
17
Total Cases
836
222
235
240
71
65
1
4
88
92
Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 38 & 39 Vict.,
cap. 63, 1875, and the Amendment Act, 42 & 43 Vict., cap. 30,
1879.
Samples procured by the Inspectors, together with the result
of Analyses, &c.
Samples.
Samples procured.
Samples adulterated.
Milk
134
22
Bread
30
1
Flour
33
-
Mustard
21
1
Pepper
19
-
Coffee
17
2
Condensed Milk
5
-
Sweets
4
-