[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell,

  • Camberwell (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1901?]
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    total number of notifications of this disease was 784, compared with 1,175 in 1899. I may here remark that the death-rate from this disease in Camberwell is among the lowest of the London parishes. Among the deaths registered during the year we have 7 from heat-stroke. These occurred in July and were among those who were either young, or exposed to the sun in the course of their work. The report I have to present on diphtheria is almost the exact contrary to last year. Now I find myself in the pleasant position of being able to point out a decrease in the notifications, which amounted to 886, compared with 1,251 in 1899, while the deaths amounted to 131, as compared with 153 in the previous year. The notifications were diminished in all the districts, especially in Camberwell and St. George's. The death-rate for the whole of London was .34 per thousand, while that of Camberwell was .49, so that we are still above the average both for London and its south districts, but we are below most of the parishes bordering on our eastern and northern boundaries. I give the figures for 1899 and 1900 for the neighbouring Sanitary Authorities: — Sanitary Areas. 1899. 1900. 0.38 1.04 St. George-the-Martyr 0.81 St. Olave 0.28 Bermondsey 1.03 0.69 0.86 Battersea 0.19 Rotherhithe 0.78 0.63 Lambeth 0.32 0.51 Camberwell 0.61 0.49 0.34 Lewisham (excluding Penge) 0.75 It was not found that there were any special schools affected, so that there was no need for the closure of any of these institutions. I have again to call the attention, not only of the Council, but of the public, to the fact that virulent diphtheria bacilli have been found after seven weeks from the disappear ance of all naked-eye signs of the disease from the throat, and again to emphasise the importance of having a bacteriological xi.