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 Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Table I. gives not only particulars of the notified
cases (age, sex, address, date of onset, etc.), but shews
also the ordinary and "pudding" rounds of the various
distributors (regular and "odd" men) in connection with
such cases, before, at the time of, and during, the
outbreak.
•Of the "pudding" rounds, the following houses are doubtful,
i.e., the distributors did not actually call at the infccted houses,
but passed down the roads, or near to, daily :—No. 1—8, No. 2—2,
No. 3—2, No. 9—11, No. 12-6, No. 15—6, No. 19—20, No. 20—2,
"odd" man S.J .A.—18, "odd" man E.F.—18, and "odd" man
W.K.—6.
t "Odd " man S.J.A. has a special "pudding" round.
N.B.—"Odd" man E.F. assists daily "odd' man S.J.A.
on his special "pudding" round, and regular distributors
Nos. 4 and 9 on their ordinary rounds (morning
and afternoon respectively). "Odd" man W.K. assists
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Dividing the total 1 17 notified cases of diphtheria amongst the 25 distributors (both regular and "odd" men) according to their milk rounds (both ordinary and pudding '), the numbers for each individual distributor were found to vary within wide ranges, as follow, the total being, of course, double the notified cases, viz., 234, on account of the double daily rounds :—
Distributors. | Milk Rounds. | Distributors. | Milk Rounds. | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Regular. | Ordinary | "Pud-ding." | Total. | Regular. | Ordinary | "Pud- ding." | Total | |||
No. 1 | 2 | 10 | ||||||||
2 | 5 | 10* | 15 | 15 | 2 | 7* | 9 | |||
3 | 4 | 6* | 10 | 16 | 5 | — | 5 | |||
4 | 2 | - | 2 | 17 | 2 | — | 2 | |||
5 | 3 | - | 3 | 18 | 2 | - | 2 | |||
6 | 9 | — | 9 | 19 | 4 | 31* | 35 | |||
7 | 10 | — | 10 | 20 | 5 | 3* | 8 | |||
8 | 15 | — | 15 | 21 | 2 | — | 2 | |||
9 | 9 | 14* | 23 | 22 | 3 | — | 3 | |||
10 | 8 | - | 8 | Odd' men | ||||||
11 | 11 | - | 11 | S.J.A.† | - | 24* | 24 | |||
12 | 12 | 14* | 26 | E.F. | 11 | 24* | 35 | |||
13 | 2 | - | 2 | |||||||
14 | — | — | - | W.K. | — | 14* | 14 |