Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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Table SHEWING NUMBER OF ROOMS DISINFECTED AFTER THE FOLLOWING DISEASES :—
1913 | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Erysipelas. | Membranous Croup. | Enteric Fever | Pulmonary Tuberculosis | Measles. | Puerperal Fever. | Cerebrospinal Fever. | Other Diseases. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
January | .. | 44 | 16 | 3 | .. | 1 | 15 | 1 | .. | .. | |
February | .. | 39 | 15 | .. | 2 | .. | 6 | 4 | .. | .. | 1 |
March | .. | 32 | 12 | .. | .. | 4 | 18 | 8 | .. | .. | 2 |
April | .. | 52 | 7 | .. | .. | 4 | 11 | 4 | .. | .. | 2 |
May | .. | 53 | 16 | .. | .. | 2 | 18 | 11 | .. | .. | 2 |
June | .. | 34 | 19 | .. | .. | .. | 12 | 13 | .. | .. | 5 |
July | .. | 91 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 4 | 1 | .. | 1 |
August | .. | 43 | 11 | .. | .. | 1 | 6 | 2 | .. | • • | 4 |
September | .. | 80 | 33 | 1 | 2 | .. | 16 | 5 | .. | .. | 2 |
October | .. | 85 | 39 | 1 | .. | .. | 21 | 5 | .. | .. | 4 |
November | .. | 67 | 24 | 1 | .. | 3 | 28 | 3 | .. | .. | 3 |
December | .. | 56 | 31 | .. | .. | 1 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 1 | |
Total | .. | 676 | 239 | 9 | 5 | 18 | 191 | 67 | 2 | .. | 27 |
SPECIAL CASES.
Feb. 26th—Shandon Place. Gangrene. 3 pillows, 2 bolsters, 10 odd articles
—disinfected.
March 5th—Park Road. Abscess. 1 mattress, 7 pillows—disinfected.
12th—New Cross Road. Gangrene. 1 mattress, 1 blanket, 2 sheets, 4 odd
articles—destroyed.
,, 13th—Jerningham Road. Gangrene. 1 bed, 2 pillows, 1 bolster, 1 mattress,
3 odd articles—disinfected.
April 5th—Brockley Road. Cancer. 1 mattress, 2 pillows, 1 bolster, 2 sheets,
5 blankets, 8 odd articles—disinfected
May 19th—St. Donatt's Road. Cancer. 1 mattress, 1 bolster, 1 pillow, 8 odd
articles — disinfected.
„ 21st—Hilly Fields Crescent Cancer. 2 mattresses, 4 pillows, 1 sheet,
3 blankets, 13 odd articles disinfected. 2 sheets, 2 pillows, 5 odd
articles—destroyed.
29th—Endwell Road Cancer. 1 bed, 4 pillows. 3 sheets, 4 blankets, 6 odd
articles—disinfected.
June 3rd—Rolt Street. Cancer. 1 bed, 2 pillows, 1 bolster, 4 blankets—
disinfected.
14th—Hunsdon Road. Cancer. 1 bed, 1 mattress, 1 bolster, 1 pillow—
disinfected.
19th—New Cross Road. Bronchitis, 1 bed—disinfected.
July 1st—Brockley Road. Cancer. 1 bed, 2 pillows, 1 bolster, 1 mattess—
disinfected.
,, 4th—New Cross Road. Cancer. 1 bed, 1 mattress, 3 pillows, 1 bolster—
disinfected; 1 mattress—destroyed,
,, 10th—Drakefell Road. Cancer I bed, 1 mattress, 2 pillows, 3 odd
articles—disinfected.
Aug. 13th—Douglas Street. Cancer. 3 mattresses, 2 pillows, 1 bolster 1 odd
article—disinfected.