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Lambeth 1891

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]

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reported as present in 32 houses, and sanitary defects were discovered
in 21. Croup claimed 29 houses, and sanitary defects
were discovered in 16. Small Pox infected 3 houses, and sanitary
defects were discovered in 1. In 6 houses Puerperal 1 ever complicated
the lying in period of childbirth, and sanitary defects
were discovered in 5. Diarrhoea having been notified under the
application of Cholera attracted the attention of the Inspectors to
4 houses, all of which were the subjects of sanitary defects;
and sanitary defects were discovered in a house occupied by a
person notified as suffering from Relapsing Fever.

The Deaths occurring in Lambeth from All Causes in the 52 weeks ending Saturday, 2nd January, 1892.

CAUSES OF DEATH.Under 1 year1 and under 55 and under 2020 and under 4040 and under 60Co and under 8080 and upwardsTotal at all Agesp
All Causes1387864319602103813733035886
Small PoxVaccinated........................
Unvaccinated........................
No statement.....................
Measles209612............128
Scarlet Fever12717...1......46
Typhus......1...............
Relapsing Fever........................
Influenza71342140406131
Whooping Cough931397............239
Diphtheria54726............78
Simple and undefined Fever114...1......7
Enteric Fever...21113141...28
Simple Cholera1..................1
Diarrhoea, Dysentery117311...3103165
Remittent Fever...11............2
Hydrophobia............ ...1...1
Glanders........................
Cowpox and Vaccination2...............2
Venereal Affections11I227
Erysipelas11270114
Pyaemia Septicaemia.........3216
Puerperal Fever.........92......11
Other Zymotic Diseases1......111...3
Thrush8...............8
Worms and other Par. Disease...1.........1
Starvation, want of breast milk8..................8
Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens.........991...19
Rheu. Fev., Rheu. of the Heart......610t;122
Rheumatism.........2125
Gout.........157114
Rickets45...............9
Cancer...2...16928510205
Tabes Mesenterica38206111...67
Tubercular Meningitis2543151.........84
Phthisis41243201I 7924....46
Scrofula, Tuberculosis13183106......50
Other Constitutional Diseases1II61415139
Premature Birth157..................1 <57
Atelectasis6.....................6
Congen. Malformations...............
Old Age............108112220
Apoplexy1...1Q421078168
EpilepsyI7816124
Convulsions149252............176
Other Diseases of Brain, &c.34362920618712279