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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
Greenwich 1898
Annual report for the year ending 25th March, 1899
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It is believed by a large majority of medical men that the
disease is of an infectious character, and the best means of
suppressing it is by isolation.
The following figures show the number of deaths that have been registered from influenza in the Greenwich District since 1890:—
| 1890 | 4 | 1894 | 11 |
| 1891 | 44 | 1895 | 51 |
| 1892 | 33 | 1896 | 13 |
| 1893 | 28 | 1897 | 22 |
| 1898 | 42 |
I am happy to state that during the year 1898 there was not
a case of Cholera reported as having occurred in this district.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
I stated in my Annual Report of 1888-9, that it was customary
to regard the absence or prevalence of disease of a Zymotic type
as a test of the Sanitary condition of a district, and I was justified
in congratulating the Board upon the satisfactory state of the
Parish of Greenwich, as the Death Rate amounted to only 1.6
per 1,000 from that class of disease.
This year, the Death Rate amounts to 3.2 per 1,000 as
against 2 .3 of last year. The increase being largely due to
Infantile Diarrhoea during the months of July, August and September.
There has been an increase in the number of Notifiable
Diseases during the year in the Parish of Greenwich.