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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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1926; and 3 in 1930. One case was admitted to St. Margaret's
Hospital.
The remaining four were treated at home by private medical practitioners.
| Cases | Vision UnImpaired | Vision Impaired. | Total Blindness. | Deaths | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notified. | Treated | |||||
| At Home | In Hospital | |||||
| 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | - | - | - |
(g) Acute Influenzal and Acute Primary Pneumonia.—69
cases were notified (of which 13 were in institutions) in 1930,
compared with 146 in 1929; 92 in 1928; 139 in 1927; 73 in 1926;
and 103 in 1925.
(h) Encephalitis Lcthargica.—No cases were notified during
1930.
(i) Plague.—No contacts of cases of this disease were received
during the year.
(j) Puerperal Fever.—No cases were notified during the year.
(k) Puerperal Pyrexia.—10 notifications were received, 3
subsequently proving to be Puerperal Fever. Of these 3 cases,
one was treated at the Isolation Hospital and made a good recovery;
and two cases were treated at Oldchurch Hospital, one having a
fatal termination.
The remaining 7 were suffering from the following conditions :—
(1) Gluteal abscess; (2) pyelonephritis; (3) sapræmia,;
(4) unknown; (5) pyelonephritis; (6) pyelonephritis;
(7) scarlet fever.
Case No. (4) was treated at home ; No. (5) was treated at the
Maternity Home; Nos. (1), (2), (3) and (6), were treated at the
Isolation Hospital, and No. (7) at the London Hospital.