London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Beckenham 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beckenham]
This page requires JavaScript
Table Showing Return Cases since 1903.
| Year. | No. of Cases Notified. | No. removed to Hospital. | No. of "Return" Infecting Cases. | No. Infected by "Return" Infecting Cases. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903 | 51 | 42 | 4 | 4 |
| 1904 | 38 | 31 | 1 | 1 |
| 1905 | 57 | 42 | — | — |
| 1906 | 90 | 83 | 3 | 3 |
| 1907 | 115 | 106 | 2 | 3 |
| 1908 | 132 | 107 | 4 | 5 |
| 1909 | 140 | 124 | 5 | 11 |
| 1910 | 34 | 26 | 2 | 3 |
| 1911 | 59 | 50 | 4 | 9 |
| 1912 | 70 | 63 | 3 | 10 |
| 1913 | 62 | 51 | 3 | 3 |
| 1914 | 98 | 87 | 6 | 6 |
| 1915 | 55 | 411 | No Records available. | |
| 1916 | 56 | 39 | ||
| 1917 | 16 | 9 | ||
| 1918 | 29 | 21 | ||
| 1919 | 57 | 42 | 1 | 1 |
| 1920 | 117 | 92 | 10 | 11 |
| 1921 | 118 | 94 | 3 | 3 |
| 1922 | 80 | 58 | 8 | 10 |
| 1923 | 35 | 28 | 2 | 2 |
| 1924 | 64 | 54 | 4 | 5 |
| 1925 | 53 | 42 | 4 | 3 |
The subject of immunisation in connection with the infectious
fevers is one that is of the greatest interest to those in the practice
of preventive 'medicine.
The success which has attended immunisation against Small Pox
and Typhoid Fever leads us to look to the application of kindred
methods against the other infectious diseases for which at present
we have no reliable prophylactic.
Dick Test.—During the last two or three years much interest
has developed in a test which was introduced by the Dicks in
America and investigated by 'many workers in this country, notably
by Dr. R. A. O'Brien and others at the Wellcome Research Laboratories
in this District. It is claimed for this test that it enables us
to detect persons who are susceptible to the infection of Scarlet
Fever in a similar way to the Schick Test for Diphtheria.