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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
Ilford 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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In addition to the above infectious diseases notifiable to the Medical
Officer of Health, certain industrial diseases are notifiable to the Chief Inspector
of Factories, by medical practitioners under Section 73 of the Factory and
Workshop Act, 1901, and Statutory Rules and Orders 1775, 1170 and 1505.
These are cases of lead, phosphorus, arsenical, mercurial, carbon bisulphide,
aniline and chronic benzene poisoning, anthrax, toxic jaundice, epitheliomatous
or chrome ulceration, contracted in any factory or workshop.
Table II shows the number of cases of infectious disease notified
during 1930, arranged according to age and distributed in wards.
Of these 59 occurred in institutions as follows:-
| Claybury Mental Hospital:- | |
| Small Pox | 5 cases. |
| Pneumonia | 4 cases. |
| Enteric Fever | 5 cases. |
| Erysipelas | 1 case. |
| Dysentery | 10 cases. |
| 25 cases. | |
| Dr. Barnardo's Girls' Village Homes:- | |
| Diphtheria | 6 cases. |
| Scarlet Fever | 4 cases. |
| Erysipelas | 4 cases. |
| Tuberculosis-Pulmonary | 3 cases. |
| „ Other forms | 1 case. |
| 18 cases. | |
| West Ham Mental Hospital:- | |
| Diphtheria | 1 case. |
| 1 case. | |
| King George Hospital:- | |
| Small Pox | 1 case. |
| Diphtheria | 2 cases. |
| Scarlet Fever | 2 cases. |
| Erysipelas | 1 case. |
| Pneumonia | 9 cases. |
| 15 cases. |
Of the cases notified (exclusive of those from Public Institutions) the following table shows the percentage isolated in hospitals:-
| Scarlet Fever | 67.8 |
| Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 93.1 |
| Enteric Fever | 66.6 |
| Puerperal Fever | 100.0 |