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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
Barking 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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I append the following table for comparison with former years:—
| Year. | No. of Cases. | Deaths. | No. treated in Hospital. | Percentage treated in Hospital. | Death Rate per cent. | Death Rate per 1,000 of population. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | 37 | 6 | 42 | 82.3 | 11.7 | .2 |
| 1906 | 69 | 9 | 56 | 81 | 13 | .31 |
| 1905 | 116 | 14 | 91 | 78.4 | 12.0 | .5 |
| 1904 | 145 | 9 | 113 | 77 | 6.2 | .33 |
| 1903 | 194 | 19 | 149 | 76.8 | 9.7 | 0.76 |
| 1902 | 75 | 6 | 20 | 28.0 | 8.0 | 0.25 |
| 1901 | 80 | 3 | 41 | 61.2 | 3.7 | 0.13 |
| 1900 | 75 | 5 | 33 | 44.4 | 6.5 | 0.23 |
Enteric Fever.
The number of notified eases during the year was 28 with
3 deaths. This is a larger number than last year, when the
number was very small indeed. In the first six months of the
year only 9 cases occurred. The number in the latter part of
the year was greatly increased by a small outbreak in and around
Morley Road. Seven cases were found in one house, and apart
from this the amount of infection was about the same as the year
before,
I found it exceedingly difficult to assign a cause. The milk
and water supplies were carefully overhauled, and a bacteriological
examination made of the suspicious ones. No Bacillus Typhosus
were found, but the milk was found to be very dircy. The chief
point against the milk being the cause of infection was the fact
that large numbers of persons partook of the same milk all over
the town, but the only people who got it were those living in that
particular locality, therefore I think we were justified in assuming