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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Southwark 1893

Annual report for 1893 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Ambalaaces will not be placed at the said stations, unless cholera actually appears
in an epidemic form in London. Any isolated cases that occur, and are notified to
the Board, will be removed by the ordinary Ambulance Service.
If it should become necessary to bring the Special Cholera Service into use, a
staff of bearers will be provided by the Board; but in case of emergency, the cholera
ambulances will be at the disposal of Medical Officers of Health, or any medical men,
for the removal of patients to avoid delay.
Yours faithfuily,
T. DUNCOMBE MANN,
Clerk to the Board.
To P. J. WALDO, Esq., M.D.
Medical Officer of Health for St. George the Martyr.
Transport of the Sick—The only Ambulance Station provided in St. George's for
the housing of special cholera litters was at the Workhouse in Mint Street.

Table: Hospital Accommodation—The following is a list of institutions which promised to provide accommodation for patients in the South of London:—

Hospital Accommodation—The following is a list of institutions which promised to provide accommodation for patients in the South of London:—

N ame of Sanitary District in which the accommodation is situated.No. of bedsIn what Building.Notice required and other remarks.
Plumstead60Woolwich Infirmary, Plumstead.
Greenwich?Seamen's Hospital.No answer
Greenwich60Greenwich Infirmary.
Rotherhithe92St. Olave's Infirmary, Lower road.3 day's notice
St. Olave's50Guy's Hospital.
St. Saviours100Workhouse, Marlboro Street, Blackfriars Road.
N ewington?Workhouse, Westmoreland-road, Walworth.No answer
Lambeth?St. Thomas' Hospital Westminster Bridge Road.No answer
Lambeth100Workhouse, Princes Road.7 day's notice
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Our first experience of cholera in England during 1893 occurred in June, when an
infected vessel arrived in the Tyne, from Nantes, with a patient, who died the same
day. In July and August other vessels brought cases up the Thames, the Humber,
:uld the Mersey, and isolated attacks were verified at Hull and Grimsby. The latter
fishing-town probably became infected through importation from Antwerp. During
September and August the disease spread from Grimsby to various places in
England.
Pour undoubted and fatal cases of Asiatic cholera occurred in London during
September. They were as follows:—
Date of Death. Address.
(1) Female, aet. 50 September 6th Marsham-Street,
A cleaner in the House Westminster,
of Commons.