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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 1926
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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Summary.
| Number of premises visited:—Infectious diseases | 1311 |
| „ „ „ Requests, bedding only | 100 |
| „ „ „ Verminous | 92 |
| Total | 1503 |
| Number of rooms disinfected, formalin spray | 1591 |
| „ „ „ sulphur | 143 |
| Total | 1734 |
| Number of articles disinfected (steam disinfector) | 18563 |
| Increase (compared with 1925) due to number of requests, 45 from Babies' Home, from whence 4754 articles were collected. | |
| Number of books disinfected (formalin lamp) | 382 |
| „ „ articles destroyed at owner's request | |
| 143 | |
Mortuary Report for the year ended 31st December, 1926 Bodies Received, etc.
| Total. | Male. | Female. | Inquests. | Postmortems. | Under 1 year of age. | Un-known. | Deposited to await burial only. | Infectious. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 95 | 62 | 33 | 90 | 49 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 3 | ||
Eleven bodies were detained after inquests to await burial owing
to lack of accommodation at the homes, or owing to advanced
decomposition.
Two infectious bodies were admitted to the Mortuary to await
burial, by order of the Medical Officer of Health.
| Deptford | 60 | Lambeth | 1 |
| Greenwich | 10 | Isleworth | 1 |
| Lewisham | 1 | Norway | 1 |
| Camberwell | 3 | South wark | 1 |
| Bermondsey | 13 | Walthamstow | 1 |
| Woolwich | 1 | Strand Rye, Sussex | 1 |
| Northfleet | 1 | ||