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II.—SANITARY WORK.
[Dealing with the sanitary circumstances and administration of the
Borough of Lambeth.)
Return shewing the number of Notices served in the Borough
of Lambeth, from the 1st January to the 31st December, 1927.
Number of Notices served 11,898*
A. COMPULSORILY NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES †
(Public Health (London) Act, 1891.)
No. of Notices served 3,311
No. of Infected Houses 3,010
Small-pox —
Scarlet Fever 610
Typhoid and Para-Tvphoid Fever ‡ 21
Diphtheria 695
Membranous Croup 2
Continued Fever —
Puerperal Fever 21
Erysipelas 128
Cerebro-Spinal Fever and Post-Basic Meningitis 7
Acute Polio-Myelitis 7
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 55
Measles 767
German Measles 132
Primary Pneumonia 294
Influenzal Pneumonia 202
Encephalitis Lethargica 7
Malaria 5
Dysentery —
Trench Fever —
Anthrax 1
Puerperal Pyrexia 56
B. GENERAL NUISANCES AND DRAINAGE DEFECTS.
(Public Health (London) Act, and Metropolis Local Management
Acts.)
No. of Notices served*† 8,572
Works, Structural—
Drainage, Defective 268
Intercepting Traps with Fresh Air Inlets required, or
defective 133
* Including Measles and German Measles, but excluding notices under
the Housing Acts.
† Excluding Tuberculosis.
‡ 2 cases of Para-typhoid.
§ 6 cases of Cerebro-spinal Fever and 1 case of Post-basic meningitis.