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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
Greenwich 1912
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1912
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Notifications under the Provisions of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891. During the year 1,909 cases have been
notified under the above Act, as compared with 1,308, 622 and
879 respectively in the preceding years 1911, 1910 and 1909.
Small-Pox. No case of this disease was notified during the
year in persons residing in this Borough.
Intimations respecting 13 Small-pox contacts were received
from the various Port Sanitary Authorities, all of whom were
visited and watched during the incubation period.
Chicken-Pox. Cases of this disease have not been compulsorily
notifiable during the year.