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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In connection with the general precautions for preventing the
spread of Infectious Diseases, there certainly appears to be an
urgent need for the provision of premises for isolating cases that
appear to be of a suspicious character, so that the cases could be
watched until it was definitely decided as to what was the character
of the illness. It will be readily understood that keeping a case of
this character in the homes of the poorer people exposes the
other members of the family to great risk of infection, and yet the
case must not be sent to the ordinary Fever Hospital for obvious
reasons until it is definitely declared.
Number of Articles and Rooms Disinfected in connection with the Undermentioned Diseases, from January 1st, 1902, to January 3rd, 1903.
Infectious Diseases. | Premises Entered. | Rooms Disinfected. | Beds Disinfected. | Palliasses Disinfected. | Mattresses Disinfected. | Pillows Disinfected. | Bolsters Disinfected. | Blankets Disinfected. | Sheets Disinfected. | Cushions Disinfected. | Quilts Disinfected. | Odd Articles Disinfected. | Total No. Articles Disinfected. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-pox | 110 | 175 | 119 | 70 | 61 | 240 | 109 | 329 | 208 | 87 | 163 | 2467 | 3853 |
Scarlet Fever | 393 | 426 | 300 | 90 | 187 | 587 | 243 | 543 | 199 | 140 | 271 | 632 | 3192 |
Diphtheria | 160 | 161 | 53 | 8 | 33 | 109 | 41 | 119 | 28 | 32 | 52 | 123 | 598 |
Enteric Fever | 53 | 53 | 34 | 5 | 11 | 65 | 21 | 48 | 17 | 5 | 23 | 28 | 257 |
Puerperal Fever | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | ... | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 38 |
Membranous Croup | 2 | 2 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Other Diseases | 28 | 30 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 22 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 71 |
Total | 748 | 849 | 519 | 179 | 299 | 1033 | 425 | 1050 | 456 | 267 | 511 | 3270 | 8009 |
Twenty-four notices of return cases of Scarlet Fever have also
been received from the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals
during the year.