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 1919
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deaths occurred in East Greenwich, 2 in West Greenwich, 0 in
St. Nicholas and 2 in Charlton.
Typhoid Fever. There were 2 deaths ascribed as due to this
disease; there were 4 in 1918, 2 in 1917, 6 in 1916, 7 inl915, 5 in
1914, 3 in 1913, 2 in 1912, 4 in 1911 and 3 in 1910. One death
occurred in East Greenwich and 1 in West Greenwich.
Diarrhœa and Zymotic Enteritis. Twenty-eight deaths were
stated to be due to this cause, equalling a rate of .26 per 1,000.
Last year there were 37 deaths, and 37, 42 and 38 respectively in
1915, 1916 and 1917.
The deaths were distributed as follows:—Thirteen in East
Greenwich, 6 in West Greenwich, 6 in St. Nicholas, 2 in Charlton
and 1 in Kidbrooke. Twenty-five patients were under five years of
age.
The deaths in 1918 were distributed as follows:—21 in East
Greenwich, 7 in West Greenwich, 6 in St. Nicholas and 5 in
Charlton.
Influenza. Influenza is found to have been the responsible
cause of 84 deaths in 1919, 114 was the average of the previous
three years. Of the 84, 11 were over sixty-five years of age.
Sporadic Diseases. There was one death from this class of
diseases during the year.
Venereal. Syphilis. Eleven deaths were given as due to
Syphilis, as against 6 in 1918 and 5 in 1917. Of these 11 deaths,
7 were under five years of age. Three occurred in East Greenwich,
6 in West Greenwich and 2 in St. Nicholas. Four of the deceased
persons were in the Greenwich Infirmary, 1 in the Seamen's Hospital
and 3 in the Miller Hospital.
There were no deaths from Gonorrhoea during the year.
Septic. Erysipelas. Two deaths occurred from this cause
in 1919, 2 in 1918, 1 in 1917, 3 in 1916 and 4 in 1915.
Puerperal Fever. There were 4 deaths from this disease
during the year.
Pymæia and Septicæmia. There were 3 deaths from this
disease during the year, and 2 deaths from other allied diseases.
Malarial. Eheumatic Fever. There were 3 deaths in 1919,
as compared with 1 in 1918, 3 in 1917 and 1 in 1916. Rheumatism
of the Heart. There was one death ascribed to this cause during
1919.
Tuberculosis. This class includes the causes of 174 deaths
during the year under review, with a rate of 1.66; these figures
compare with 170, 219 and 174, the totals of the years 1916, 1917
and 1918 respectively, and respective rates of 1.80, 2.42 and 1.90.