Report on the epidemic of smallpox 1901-2 in the Borough of Lambeth.

  • Lambeth (London, England)
Date:
[1902]
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Credit: Report on the epidemic of smallpox 1901-2 in the Borough of Lambeth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Population Infected Infected Incidence Inner—Census 1901.Houses.Persons. Inhabitants' Marsh 27440 88 107 3.9 Bishop's 32340 60 64 1.9 Prince's 47618 61 79 1.7 Vauxhall 31487 28 42 1.3 Totals for Inner} 38885 237 292 7.5 Wards} Outer — Stockwell 32339 27 29 0.9 Brixton 43474 30 31 0.7 Herne Hill 30199 21 28 0.9 Tulse Hill 27574 9 14 0.5 Norwood 29424 9 10 0.3 Total, for outer Wards 163010 96 112 0.7 Borough Lambeth 301895 333 404 1.3 The Inner Wards being more congested than the Outer, and work-places being more numerous in the former than in the latter, it was only natural to suppose that the Smallpox incidence would be greater in the Inner Wards, which were also nearer to the Small-pox-infected areas north of the Thames, and consequently more likely to become infected by workers from such districts returning to Lambeth to sleep. Such is found to have been the case in Lambeth during the Smallpox epidemic 1901—2.