Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1902
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BOROUGH OF GREENWICH.
Summary of Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the 4th Quarter (14 weeks) ending 3rd January, 1903.
Cases Notified in Whole District.
Total Cases notified in each Locality.
No. of Casus removed to Hospital from each
Locality.
Greenwich
East.
Greenwich
West.
St. Nicholas,
Deptford.
Charlton.
Kidbrooke.*
At all
Ages.
Greenwich
East.
Greenwich
West.
St. Nicholas,
Deptford.
Charlton.
Kidbrooke.
Notifiable Disease.
At Ages—Years.
Under 1.
1 to 5.
5 to 15.
15 to 25.
25 to 65.
65 and
upwards.
1
...
...
...
Small-pox
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
Cholera
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Diphtheria
57
19
24
5
31
11
8
5
2
27
7
6
5
2
9
...
...
...
Membranous Croup
1
1
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Erysipelas
37
1
1
2
1
31
1
13
13
8
3
...
3
1
2
1
...
Scarlet Fever
115
30
69
12
4
72
23
6
12
2
56
20
5
9
2
...
...
Typhus Fever
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Enteric Fever
10
...
5
10
4
...
2
26
...
2
5
9
12
...
4
5
4
...
...
Relapsing Fever
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Continued Fever
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Puerperal Fever
2
...
1
1
2
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Plague
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Chicken-pox
297
30
123
137
4
3
...
79
128
50
38
2
...
...
...
...
...
6
...
Phthisis
18
2
2
14
8
6
2
2
...
5
2
...
...
...
...
Totals
17
32
176
244
30
71
215
186
78
64
11
8
554
1
101
38
16
Cases of Infectious Disease are treated in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, whose Brook Hospital is situated in Kidbrooke.