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 1903
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BOROUGH OF GREENWICH.
Summary of Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the 52 weeks ending 2nd January, 1904.
Notifiable Disease.
Cases Notified in Whole District.
Total Cases Notified in each Locality.
No. of Casks removed to Hospital from each
Locality.
At all
Ages.
At Ages—Years.
Greenwich
East.
Greenwich
West.
St. Nicholas,
Deptford.
Charlton.
Kidbrooke.*
Greenwich
East.
Greenwich
W est.
St. Nicholas,
Deptford.
Charlton.
Kidbrooke.*
Under 1.
1 to 5.
5 to 15.
15 to 25.
25 to 65.
65 and
upwards.
Small-pox
4
...
...
2
1
1
...
2
...
2
...
...
2
...
2
...
...
Cholera
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Diphtheria
207
4
79
93
18
12
1
73
76
38
11
9
58
69
32
9
2
Membranous Croup
1
...
...
1
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Erysipelas
73
1
3
3
13
41
12
35
14
15
8
1
4
1
2
1
...
Scarlet Fever
164
2
66
83
17
6
...
67
43
11
32
11
60
35
8
25
10
Typhus Fever
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Enteric Fever
44
...
2
14
12
16
...
25
10
1
8
...
22
7
1
6
...
Relapsing Fever
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Continued Fever
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Puerperal Fever
7
...
...
...
1
6
...
3
2
1
1
...
2
1
...
1
...
Plague
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Chicken-pox
138
18
62
56
2
...
...
68
37
5
26
2
...
...
...
...
...
Phthisis
51
...
2
4
8
34
3
19
9
16
7
...
8
5
2
1
...
Totals
689
25
204
256
72
116
16
293
191
89
93
23
156
118
47
43
12
* Cases of Infectious Disease are treated in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, whose Brook Hospital is situated in Kidbrooke.