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 Willesden]
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for observation and isolation of complicated cases,
12 beds. This arrangement allows of no accommodation
for Enteric, and the patients have had to be
placed in half of the isolation block. The isolating
of Scarlet Fever with Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever
and Measles, Whooping Cough and Chicken Pox,
have been at times quite impossible, and these
second diseases have consequently spread through
the ward.
TABLE No. 1.
CASES UNDER TREATMENT.
Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Typhoid Fever. | Erysipelas. | Other Diseases | Total. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Remaining on Dec. 31st, 1899 | 46 | 24 | 5 | .. | .. | 75 | |
Admitted | 188 | 122 | 34 | .. | 4 | 348 | |
Total | 234 | 146 | 39 | .. | 4 | 423 | |
Discharged | 189 | 112 | 24 | .. | 4 | 329 | 365 |
Died | 9 | 19 | 8 | .. | .. | 36 | |
Remaining on Dec. 31st, 1900 | 36 | 15 | 7 | .. | .. | 58 |