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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 1888
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]
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SMALL POX.
From this disease during the year 1888 no death occurred.
3ne case only was reported, and that was removed to
Hospital from Cottage Grove, Stockwell, and recovered.
The following table shows the number of Small Pox cases removed to the Hospitals of the Asylums Board during the least eleven years, and the proportion of paupers to the whole lumber admitted:—
| 1877 | 26 | Paupers | 577 | Non-Paupcrs |
| 1878 | 20 | „ | 277 | „ |
| 1879 | 1 | „ | 77 | „ |
| 1880 | 1 | „ | 80 | „ |
| 1881 | 14 | „ | 440 | „ |
| 1882 | 24 | „ | 109 | „ |
| 1883 | 0 | „ | 39 | „ |
| 1884 | 3 | „ | 207 | „ |
| 1885 | 22 | „ | 396 | „ |
| 1886 | 7 | „ | — | „ |
| 1887 | — | „ | — | „ |
| 1888 | — | 1 | „ |
Making a total during the nine years of 2321, of which 118
were paupers, or,
Non-paupers 95.2 per cent.
Paupers 4.8 per cent.
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