Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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Table XIII. D. sets forth the number of samples of
food and drugs submitted by the inspectors to the Analyst,
and the number of summonses which have been taken out
under the provisions of the Food and Drugs Act.
During the year (see Table XIV.) the following
notifications of diseases were made: —l6 of small-pox
against 140 in the previous year, 946 cases of scarlet fever
against 1,886 in the previous year, 740 cases of diphtheria
against 526 in the previous year and 312 in the year before
that, 336 cases of erysipelas against 440 in the previous
year, 129 cases of typhoid fever against 138 in the previous
year, 1 case of typhus (which we had good reason for
regarding as a case of typhoid fever) and 15 cases of puerperal
fever against 23 in the previous year. Also 2 cases were
notified as relapsing or continued fever, and none as cases
of English cholera.
To the above paragraph it may be added that 2,185
cases were notified to the Metropolitan Asylums Board, that
1,913 notifications of infectious diseases, and 1,169 of disinfection
after infectious diseases, were made to schools, and
that 3,719 notices were served on the occupiers of houses,
making the total number of notices served 9,986.
As regards other clerical work, 9,140 letters were
received and 11,657 sent out.
The total number of cases notified to us was 2,185
against 3,166 in the previous year, 2,307 in 1892 and 1,212
in 1891. The only increase as against last year is the
notification of diphtheria.
TABLE XIII. RETURN OF WORK PERFORMED IN THE SANITARY DEPARTMENT FORM THE 1ST JANUARY, 1894, TO THE 31ST DECEMBER, 1894, BOTH INCLUSIVE. PUBLIC HEALTH (LONDON) ACT, 1891.
TABLE A. Description of Work. | Inspectors. | ||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stevenson. | Groom. | Pointon. | Dewey. | Eagle. | Chadderton. | Shapley. | Scudamore | Collins. | Heath. | Kerslake. | Morley. | Homer. | Farmer. | Total. | |
House to House Inspections | 825 | 936 | 1053 | 956 | 918 | 1202 | 748 | 716 | 786 | 844 | 920 | 899 | 965 | 1075 | 12843 |
Complaints | 88 | 90 | 102 | 128 | 148 | 72 | 75 | 104 | 86 | 96 | 76 | 30 | 168 | 56 | 1319 |
Inspections arising from do | 138 | 200 | 114 | 67 | 270 | 199 | 229 | 174 | 93 | 66 | 87 | 78 | 177 | 73 | 1965 |
Bakehouses | 30 | 11 | 32 | 69 | 21 | 39 | 69 | 42 | 38 | 30 | 16 | 6 | 58 | 0 | 461 |
Cowhouses | 3 | 5 | 23 | 44 | 8 | 13 | 58 | 28 | 80 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 60 | 0 | 361 |
Slaughterhouses | 20 | 4 | 14 | 31 | 0 | 14 | 19 | 1 | 35 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 0 | 213 |
Laundries | 7 | 9 | 29 | 28 | 21 | 11 | 29 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 18 | 2 | 181 |
Infectious Cases | 209 | 194 | 124 | 110 | 191 | 162 | 128 | 250 | 101 | 175 | 153 | 73 | 230 | 85 | 2185 |
Schools, Board | 67 | 44 | 96 | 24 | 1 | 22 | 19 | 18 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 55 | 0 | 370 |
„ Private | 24 | 12 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 18 | 9 | 25 | 4 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 169 |
Workshops | 7 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 36 | 6 | 28 | 7 | 24 | 20 | 27 | 2 | 39 | 0 | 215 |
Sanitary Conveniences, Public Urinals, &c. | 85 | 63 | 68 | 55 | 15 | 0 | 20 | 30 | 11 | 21 | 46 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 445 |
Do. do. Private do. | 360 | 136 | 150 | 173 | 180 | 211 | 160 | 178 | 140 | 209 | 257 | 22 | 153 | 0 | 2329 |
New Buildings | 10 | 45 | 99 | 22 | 12 | 12 | 19 | 101 | 93 | 11 | 20 | 10 | 25 | 0 | 479 |
Stations inspected | 0 | 0 | 47 | 42 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 209 |
Miscellaneous inspections | 0 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 40 | 0 | 140 |
Intimations served under the P.H. Act | 419 | 354 | 358 | 327 | 595 | 448 | 332 | 346 | 301 | 562 | 717 | 512 | 415 | 307 | 5993 |
Notices served under the P.H. Act | 15 | 107 | 7 | 5 | 97 | 56 | 68 | 48 | 97 | 142 | 142 | 91 | 13 | 165 | 1053 |
Summonses taken out under the P.H. Act | 2 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 33 | 1 | 4 | 25 | 110 |
Total Primary Inspections | 2309 | 2239 | 2380 | 2087 | 2544 | 2479 | 2068 | 2157 | 1969 | 2243 | 538 | 1733 | 2506 | 1788 | 31040 |
Re-Inspection of Works in hand | 4427 | 4335 | 4219 | 4194 | 4244 | 5019 | 4093 | 4248 | 3994 | 6122 | 5069 | 3602 | 4415 | 5108 | 63089 |
„ Infectious Diseases | 198 | 19 | 52 | 3 | 41 | 102 | 91 | 56 | 47 | 83 | 46 | 14 | 51 | 2 | 805 |
Total Re-Inspections | 4625 | 4354 | 4271 | 4197 | 4285 | 5121 | 4184 | 4304 | 4041 | 6205 | 5115 | 3616 | 4466 | 5110 | 63894 |
TABLE B. | |||||||||||||||
Partial Re-construction of Old Drains under Vestry regulations | 60 | 29 | 52 | 17 | 25 | 18 | 29 | 18 | 48 | 46 | 26 | 31 | 89 | 5 | 493 |
Drainage of New Buildings and total Re-construction of Drains, &c., of Old Houses | 298 | 166 | 250 | 171 | 250 | 73 | 45 | 153 | 159 | 258 | 91 | 46 | 142 | 18 | 2120 |