Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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PHTHISIS.
TABLE 49.
A summary of the cases notified and other particulars in connection therewith during the year 1927.
Cases notified during 1927. | Old cases returned home from Infirmary. | Visits paid at the homes of patients. | Cases removed to Infirmary. | Cases removed from Southwark or which died at home. | Rooms periodically sprayed and otherwise disinfected. | Rooms stripped on termination of cases. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
343 | 239 | 4,792 | 246 | 133 | 3.058 | 58 |
TABLE 50.
The Locality of the Rooms Disinfected and Stripped
after the occurrence of Phthisis.
St. Mary's Ward. | St. Paul's Ward. | St. Peter's Ward | St. John's Ward. | Trinity Ward. | All Saints Ward. | St. Michael's Ward. | St. Jude's Ward. | St. George's Ward. | Christ-Church Ward. | St. Saviour's Ward. | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Disinfected | 389 | 323 | 307 | 376 | 207 | 298 | 349 | 227 | 296 | 139 | 147 | 3,058 |
Stripped | 7 | 11 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 58 |