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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

Penge 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]

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INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

Table: The number of cases notified shews a great decrease from the 352 of 1902, but that year , included 219 notifications of Chicken-Pox. However, leaving out Chicken-Pox, the other diseases this year only amount to 69, as against 133 in 1902, and were as follows:—

The number of cases notified shews a great decrease from the 352 of 1902, but that year , included 219 notifications of Chicken-Pox. However, leaving out Chicken-Pox, the other diseases this year only amount to 69, as against 133 in 1902, and were as follows:—

Disease.Treated at Home.Removed to Hospital.Total.
Diphtheria121325
Erysipelas11-11
Scarlet Fever62430
Enteric Fever2-2
*Chicken-pox2-2
Puerperal Fever1-I
343771

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* Ceased on January 4th, 1903, to be an infectious disease to which the
Notification Act applies.
SMALL-POX.
It is satisfactory to note that not a single case of
Small-pox has arisen, but we had one nasty experience,
which, however, turned out well. A tramp who had passed
two nights in one of the Common Lodging Houses in Arpley
Road, developed the disease, evidently while still there, but
travelled on to Croydon, where the disease was recognised,
and the man isolated. I thought this a justifiable case
for the quarantine of the other inmates of the Common