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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 1913
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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| WARDS. | QUARTERS. | YEAR. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March. | June. | Sept. | Dec. | |||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | Total. | ||||
| East | l | - | 8 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 18 | 23 | 29 | 52 | |||
| North | 6 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 24 | 34 | 58 | |||
| North-West | 8 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 13 | 30 | 35 | 65 | |||
| South | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 21 | |||
| South-East | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 12 | 29 | |||
| South-West | 4 | 2 | 4 | — | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 6 | 22 | |||
| Total | 25 | 16 | 26 | 22 | 25 | 29 | 45 | 59 | 121 | 126 | 247 | |||
| AGES OF PATIENTS NOTIFIED. | ||||||||||||||
| Under 1 | 1-5 | 5-15 | 15-25 | 25-45 | 45-65 | 65 & upwards. | All Ages. | |||||||
| l | 91 | 125 | 16 | 12 | 2 | — | 247 | |||||||
Enteric Fever.
| 1913. | Average of previous 10 years | |
|---|---|---|
| Number of Cases | 17 | 27 |
| Number of Deaths | 2 | 4 |
| Death rate per 1,000, Deptford | 0.02 | 0.04 |
This disease has been endemic in the borough for many years.
There has been no serious outbreak of the disease during the last
ten years, and only once in that time have we had more than 40 cases
notified in the one year.
During the past year we had 17 cases notified, as compared with 9
cases in 1912, 13 cases in 1911 and 24 in 1910. Five of this years' number,
however, were errors of diagonisis, or cases contracted in hospital.
The prevalence of this disease is generally considered an index of
the sanitary state of a district, and such a small number of cases
in so densely populated a town is an indication of a good sanitary
condition as regards its water carriage system, sewage, drainage, etc.
It also indicates that Deptford has a good pure water supply, which
is indeed the case.