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

  • Lambeth (London, England)
Date:
[1914]
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    31 10.9 Outer Districts) as compared with two decennial averages 1901-1910 (Borough) and 1891-1900 (Parish) of 6.1 and 9.04 respectively. During 1913, the highest in cidence rate is 14.4 (Prince’s), and the lowest 6.3 (Norwood). Further, excluding the ophthalmia neonatorum and whooping cough cases, in connection with which no systematic sanitary examination was made, the number of infected houses, in which the remaining 2,046 notified cases occurred, was 1,879, and in each of these houses a systematic sanitary examination was made of the drains and the traps, fittings and appliances with the following results:— (a) 110 (i.e., 5.9 per cent.) were found to have defective drains, i.e., gave results with the tests employed. (b) 857 (i.e., 45.6 per cent.) were found to have defective traps, fittings and appliances. (c) 912 (i.e., 48.5 per cent.) showed no defects. These figures are comparable with the quinquennial aver ages for the Parish during 1891-95 and 1896-1900, and for the Borough during 1901-5 and 1906-1910, given in Table 1. Sub-divided according to the different notifiable diseases the results for 1913 show as follow:— B 2