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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
Shoreditch 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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Below are set out briefly particulars as to the age and sex of the patients, dates of invasion and notification, the sanitary condition of the dwellings and the probable source of infection. The list includes one case which was not certified. One or two other uncertified cases are referred to in the remarks as to the probable source of infection. Cases certified but subsequently not regarded as enteric fever are excluded :
| No. of case. | Patients initials. | Sex. | Age. | Address. | Probable date of invasion. | Date of Certification. | Sanitary condition of dwelling. | Probable source of infection—Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A.L. | M. | 15 | 35, Ivy Lane | Dec. 17 | Jan. 1 | Satisfactory | |
| 2 | A.C. | M. | 48 | 41, Ashford Street | Dec. ? | Jan. 4 | Satisfactory | Disinfecting officer in service of Borough Council. Handling bedding from enteric fever patients. |
| 3 | A.R. | F. | 22 | Chest Hospital, City Road | Dec. 23 | Jan. 4 | Satisfactory | A probationer nurse in the Ward where case 63 {vide report for 1908) was being treated. |
| 4 | F.W. | M. | 4 | 10, Hertford Street | Jan. 1 | Jan. 9 | Satisfactory | Case 100 {vide report for 1908). |
| 5 | F.W. | F. | 15 | 69, Granville Buildings | Dec. 26 | Jan. 14 | Satisfactory | S.F.C. aet 25/12 son to case 16 (below), and nephew to case 5, was ill with diarrhoea, sickness, and wasting, from the end of November. Was in Great Ormonde Street Hospital with inflammation of bowels, December 10th to 24th. History suggests enteric. His mother use to take him shopping in Hoxton Street in neighbourhood where cases had been. |
| 6 | J. W. | F. | 27 | 10, Hertford Street | Jan. 9 | Jan, 14 | Satisfactory | Case 100 (vide report for 1908). |
| 7 | T. L. | M. | 21 | 35, Ivy Lane | Jan. 4 | Jan. 16 | Satisfactory | Case 1 (above), patients were brothers. |
| 8 | A. P. | F. | 10/2 | 26, Hoxton Square | Jan. 16 | Fair | Case 9 (below), who is her mother. | |
| 9 | F. P. | F. | 34 | 26, Hoxton Square 6, Hertford Street | Dec. 1 | Jan. 18 | Fair | Case 15, who is her son. |
| 10 | W.P. | M. | 40 | Jan. 9 | Jan. 16 | Fair | Case 11 (below), or Case, 100 {vide report for 1908). This patient's wife was aunt to Case 11 and nursed her when she became ill. | |
| 11 | E.S. | F. | 28 | 10, Hertford Street | Jan. 1 | Jan. 18 | Satisfactory | Case 100 (vide report for 1908). |
| 12 | B.H. | F. | 29 | 24, Wilmer Gardens | Nov. 18 | Jan. 18 | Fair | This patient was a friend of Case 48 {vide |
| report for 1908). Case 48 was treated in the Shoreditch Infirmary, and left that Institution about January 1st, 1909. B.F. visited her from time to time when she was in the Infirmary. See remarks to cases 18 and 19. | ||||||||
| 13 | S.B. | F. | 21 | 10, Hertford Street | Jan. 9 | Jan. 19 | Satisfactory | Case 100 (vide report for 1908). This patient was sister to Case 6 and resided with her. |
| 14 | E.B. | F. | 26 | 48, Essex Street | Dec. 12 | Jan. 25 | This patient resided at 41, Wilmer Gardens until December 2nd, 1908. A Mrs. C. residing with E.B., 48, Essex Street, was sister to Case 12, and looked after her when she was first taken ill. | |
| 15 | H.P. | M. | 7 | 26, Hoxton Square | Nov. 15 | Not certified. | Fair | |
| 16 | F.C. | M. | 30 | 69, Granville Buildings | Jan. 12 | Jan. 22 | Satisfactory | Case 5 or possibly same source of infection as Case 5, viz., J.F.C. |
| 17 | T.C. | F. | 3 | 191, Hoxton Street | Jan. 23 | Satisfactory | Patient appears to have contracted infection whilst in Eastern Fever Hospital whither she was moved with Scarlatina on December 10th, 1908. | |
| (James S. aet 44, father of these patients, was ailing from about November 10th. He died on December 15th from "Congestion of the Lungs." History of illness suggested enteric fever. | ||||||||
| 18 | E.T.S. | M. | 9 6/19 | 71, Wilmer Gardens | Jan. 12 | Jan. 28 | Unsatisfactory | Sarah A. S. aet 8, was ailing from about |
| 19 | s.s. | F. | 17 | 71, Wilmer Gardens | Jan. 20 | Feb. 1 | Unsatisfactory | December 29th, 1908, admitted to |
| Shoreditch Infirmary as a case of Phthisis, recovered and was discharged January 28th. History suggests, Enteric Fever. James S. appears to have been an intimate friend of Case 12. |