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Greenwich 1947

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]

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INDEX
Page
A
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis 76
Adoptive Acts, By-laws and
Local Regulations 3,4
Age Mortality 16
Aged, Infirm and Physically
Incapacitated Persons 58
Ante-Natal Clinics 26
Area of Borough 10
A.R.P. Shelters, Nuisances
arising from 37
Articles and Rooms Disinfected
78
Articles Destroyed 78
Artificial Pneumothorax 82
Artificial Sunlight Treatment 23-25
B
Bacteriological Examinations
20,64,65
Baiting of Sewers 56
Baths & Wash-houses 57
Births 15
Birth Notifications 32
Blackheath Fair 68
Bomb-damaged Buildings,
Nuisances arising from 37
Bronchitis 19
C
Cancer 18, 19
Care Committee, Tuberculosis 85-87
Caseous Lymphadenitis 67
Cerebro-Spinal Fever 76
Child Life Protection 30
Circulatory System—Diseases
of 19
Classification of Deaths 17
Cleansing Children 77
Clinics and Centres 20, 21
Common Infectious Diseases 17
Complaints 58
Council Housing Estates 61
D
Day Nursery 31
Deaths 15
Death Causes, Remarks 17-19
Deaths from Violence 19
Page
Deaths in Institutions 16
Deaths, Tables showing
Causes of and Ages at Appendix
Deaths, Tables showing
Causes of and Ages under 1 Appendix
Defective Dwellings—Repairs 38
Density of Population 10
Dental Clinic 27, 28
Diabetes 22
Diarrhoea and Zymotic
Enteritis 18, 75
Diphtheria 18, 73
Diphtheria Immunisation 73, 74
Diseases of Circulatory
System 19
Diseases of Respiratory
System 19
Disinfection 77, 78
Disinfestation of Verminous
Premises 45
Disinfestation Scheme 39-44
Domestic Helps 29
Drainage, New and Alterations
to 46
Drinking Fountains 57
Duties and Powers of the
Public Health & Maternity
and Child Welfare Committees
3, 4
Dysentery 75
E
Elevation of Borough 10
Emergency Dwellings 61
Enteric Fever 18
Erysipelas 75
E.W.S. Sites, Nuisances
arising from 37
Exhumations 58
Extracts from Vital Statistics
12, 13
F
Factories Act, 1937 34-361
Food & Drugs Act, 1938,
Samples taken under 69
Food—Inspection of 63-69
Food—Premises for Preparation
of 68, 69
Food Rejected 66, 67

CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE notified during the Year ended 31st December, 1947.

Notifiable Disease.Cases Notified in Whole DistrictTotal Cases Notified in each LocalityNo. of Cues removed to Hospital from each Locality
At Ages — Years
At all AgesUnder 11 to 56 to 1515 to 2525 to 4545 to 6565 and upwardsGreenwich EastGreenwich WestSt. NicholasCharltonand KidbrookeGreenwich EastGreenwich WestSt. NicholasCharltonand KidbrookeTotal
Small-Pox...................................................
Encephalitis Lethargica1...1........................1.........11
Diphtheria7...31...3......11...511...55
Dysentery4...11...11......1...3...1...34
Erysipelas211...1...66...10236421310
Acute Polio-Myelitis*15...29121...3624362415
Scarlet Fever147...3410094......612775226931755
Enteric Fever2...2...............11......11......2
Scabies83362119257...2428427............
Puerperal Fever...................................................
Pyrexia8.........44......212321137
Cerobro-Spinal Fever6221...1......21...31......34
Malaria1............1.........1.........1......1
Measles2732413599132......126288111431917
Whooping Cough2082410874...2......7762663152816
Diarrhoea26179...............71027782320
Ophthalmia Neonatorum55..................1......4.........44
Pneumonia, Acute Primary or Acute Influenzal7242117251762914128181311749
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary122...10632472253725951111542353
„ Non-Pulmonary12...2433......311721...58
Totals10138031732888126542038420945375816717108273