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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
Greenwich 1902
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1902
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1889. Two cases, none fatal.
1888. One case, not fatal.
1887. One case, fatal.
1886. Not stated, none fatal
1885. Not stated, 6 fatal.
1884. Not stated, 3 fatal. "Small-pox has been epidemic
in the Greenwich District for twelve months; the first case
came under my notice in Northumberland Street, and, notwithstanding
every sanitary precaution, the disease became general.
I believe that the majority of cases occurred from the want of
proper precautions respecting isolation and complete disinfection
after a first case in a household. Another cause also is the neglect
of revaccination."
1883. Not stated.
1882. Not stated, 33 fatal (Greenwich and Deptford combined).
1881. One thousand and forty-five cases and
Deptford combined), 92 fatal (Greenwich and Deptford combined),
"died at their homes, and others also died in the Small-pox
Hospitals, but the exact number I have not been able to ascertain."
1880. Not stated, 11 fatal presumably also as above.
1879. Number of fatal cases, 36; 1878, 33; 1877, 26;
1876, 2; 1875, 6; 1874, 0; 1873, 1; 1872, 39; 1871, 70; 1870,
10; 1869, 13; 1868, 45; 1867, 45; 1866, 0; 1865, 22; 1864,
31; 1863, 29; 1862, 5; 1861, 8; 1860, 27; 1859, 6; 1858, 4;
1857, 11.
The Vaccination Officer for the Greenwich Union has very
kindly given me particulars respecting the Vaccination of children
whose births were registered in his portion of the Borough up to
June 30th, 1901, which is the latest return to hand. The corresponding
particulars for the portion of the Borough within the
Woolwich Union have not been supplied by the Vaccination Officer
concerned. I must say that on going carefully through these
returns, the figures appear eminently satisfactory.
Supplemental Return for 1901. Return made on or before the 9th of February, 1903, by Mr. A. E. Rossiter, Vaccination Officer of the several Districts of the Greenwich Union, respecting the vaccination of children whose births were registered in his District from 1st January to 31st December, 1901, inclusive:—
| Registration Sub-Districts comprised in the Vaccination Officer's District. | No. of Births from 1st Jan. to 31st Dec., 1901. | No. of these Births duly entered by 31st Jan., 1903, in Cols. 1, 2, 4 and 5 of the Vaccination Register, viz.: — | No. of Births which on 31st Jan., 1903, remained unentered in the Vaccination Register on account of— | No. of these births remaining on 31st Jan., 1903, neither duly entered in the Vaccination Regr. (Cols. 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 of this Return) nor temporarily accounted for in the Report Book (Cols. 8, 9 & 10 of this Return). | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Col. 1. Successfully Vaccinated. | Col. 2. | Col. 4. Certificates of conscientious objection received. | Col. 6 Dead, Unvaccinated. | Postponement by Medical Certificate. | Removal to Districts, V.O. of which apprised. | Removal to places unknown and cases not found. | ||||
| Insusceptible of Vaccination. | Had Small-pox. | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 2. North Deptford | 1390 | 1046 | 11 | ... | 12 | 153 | 19 | 8 | 135 | 6 |
| 4. East Greenwich | 1360 | 1100 | 2 | ... | 10 | 120 | 2 | 10 | 113 | 3 |
| 5. West Greenwich | 637 | 522 | 1 | ... | 14 | 47 | 2 | 7 | 44 | ... |
| Total | 3387 | 2668 | 14 | ... | 36 | 320 | 23 | 25 | 292 | 9 |