[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough].

  • Lambeth (London, England)
Date:
[1946]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    16 Prevalence and Control Over Infectious and Other Diseases. Apart from a small part of an epidemic of measles which extended into 1946 the incidence of infectious disease was lower than the previous year, which itself was exceptional. \ot only so, but the mortality was light, as deaths from scarlet fever were 1, diphtheria 1, cerebro-spinal fever 7, measles 1, whooping cough 4 and typhoid fever 0. Sixty years ago in Lambeth, in 1888, a better year than 1885 or 1887, scarlet fever deaths numbered 56, diphtheria S6, measles 137, whooping cough 196 and typhoid fever 29. Cerebro spinal fever was not recognised as a separate disease and the deaths were attributed to various causes. The table summarising the incidence of tuberculosis, quarter by quarter for the years 1941-45, indicates that there was no significant change in the numbers notified during the period, notifications per thousand population being in the five years 2.19, 2.14, 2.21, 2.28 and 2.24 respectively. Tuberculosis. Notifications received during the year ended 31 st December, 1945 Pulmonary 347 (334) Non-pulmonarv 41 (49) Deaths certified 171 (142)