Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year ended 31st December 1912 of the Medical Officer of Health for the Port of London
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DIPHTHERIA.
Of this disease 37 cases were reported, principally from the Training Ship
"Warspite,"lying off Greenhithe.
TABLE XV. (Diphtheria.)
Date. | Name ofVessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number. | Where from. | No. of Cases. | How dealt with. |
1912. Jan. 6 | Pier Head Cottages, Millwall Dock | 2 | Removed to Brook Hospital. | |
„ Feb. 1 | Training Ship, "Warspite,"lying off | Greenhithe | 1 | Removed to Ship's Hospital on shore. |
„ 26 | s.s. "Malwa,"of Greenock, 127,543 - | Sydney - | 2 | Removed to Hospital at Fremantle. |
March 1 | Training Ship "Warspite,"lying off | Greenhithe | 1 | Removed to Ship's Hospital on shore. |
„ 4 | Ditto "Arethusa,"Ditto | Ditto | 1 | Ditto. |
„ 6 | Ditto "Warspite,'' Ditto | Ditto | 1 | Ditto. |
„ 20 | Ditto | Ditto | 1 | Ditto. |
„ 20 | s.s. "Nyanza,"of Greenock, 123,529 - | Yokohama | 1 | Removed to Hospital at Singapore. |
„ 29 | Training Ship "Warspite,"lying off | Greenhithe | 1 | Removed to Ship's Hospital on shore. |
April 18 | Ditto | Ditto | 1 | Ditto. t |
„ 25 | Ditto | Ditto | 1 | Ditto. |
May 18 | Ditto | Ditto | 1 | Ditto. |
„ 19 | s.s. "Rangatira,"of Southampton, 124,523. | Port Chalmers | 1 | Isolated on board the vessel. |
„ 29 | Training Ship "Warspite,"lying off | Greenhithe | 1 | Removed to Ship's Hospital on shore. |
June 7 | Ditto | Ditto | 1 | Ditto. |
„ 18 | Ditto | Ditto | 1 | Ditto. |
„ 20 | Ditto | Ditto | 1 | Ditto. |
„ 28 | Ditto | Ditto | 7 | Ditto. |
to Sept. 9 Sept. 23 to Oct. 25 | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. | |
Oct. 26 | Training Ship "Arethusa,"lying, off | Ditto | 1 | Ditto. |
„ 30 | Ditto | Ditto | 1 | Ditto. |
„ 28 | Training Ship "Warspite, lying off | Ditto | 1 | Ditto. |
Nov. 8 | Ditto | Ditto | 1 | Ditto. |
Dec. 6 | Ditto | Ditto | 1 | Ditto. |
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DIPHTHERIA on Training Ship "WARSPITE."
During the year, several cases of Diphtheria occurred on the Training Ship
"Warspite"at irregular intervals, twenty-seven cases having been notified between
28th January and 1st December.
This vessel was moored at Charlton until 1901, when on account of repeated outbreaks
of Diphtheria on board, it was considered desirable to remove her to Greenhithe.