London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Deptford 1911
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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Assistant Medical Officer of Health and Medical Officer to the
Municipal institution for Tuberculosis. Your Medical Officer
of Health should act as Superintendent of the institution in
order to keep the work in close touch with the Health Department,
and in order to be able to present every matter concerning
it and its requirements to the Council. A whole time nurse
must be appointed, with special knowledge of the treatment of
phthisis.
It will also be necessary to appoint a caretaker and wife,
the duty of the former being to act as porter, in addition to his
other duties.
| WARDS. | QUARTERS. | YEAR. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March. | June. | Sept. | Dec. | ||||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||||||||
| East | 8 | 7 | 18 | 16 | 22 | 14 | 12 | 17 | 60 | 54 | 114 | ||||
| North | 14 | 10 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 57 | 38 | 95 | ||||
| North-West | 1 | .. | 11 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 31 | 23 | 54 | ||||
| South | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | 5 | 3 | 8 | ||||
| South-East | 3 | .. | 9 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 31 | 7 | 38 | ||||
| South-West | .. | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 26 | ||||
| Total | 26 | 21 | 65 | 46 | 57 | 36 | 48 | 36 | 196 | 139 | 335 | ||||
| AGES OF PATIENTS NOTIFIED. | |||||||||||||||
| Under 1 | 1-5 | 5-15 | 15-25 | 25-45 | 45-65 | 65 & upwards. | All Ages. | ||||||||
| 1 | 14 | 46 | 49 | 143 | 72 | 10 | 335 | ||||||||