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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

Chislehurst 1914

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]

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infection. The Sanitary Inspector supplied disinfectants, and also, where
necessary, sputum cups. In one instance there were 13 members in the
household and only three bedrooms. In seven cases other members of the
family had died of tuberculosis.

Table: The following Table relating to all forms of Tuberculosis gives the agegroups in which the cases occured during1915.

The following Table relating to all forms of Tuberculosis gives the agegroups in which the cases occured during1915.

Total No. of Cases.Sex.AGES.
Under 11— 55—1010—1515—2020—2525—3030-3535—4040—4545—5050-5555—6060-65
Pulmonary7M......1......3...1...1...1......
Tuberculosis8F.........11111.........2...1
Other Forms of Tuberculosis1M............1...........................
2F...1...............1..................
Total18......1112413...1...3...1

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The Council paid compensations to the value of £\ for bedding, etc.,
destroyed on my instruction, on account of having been used for some time
by a case of advanced tuberculosis.
B. NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Measles.—There was one death, a child, aged 9 months, who died in
April, broncho-pneumonia was given as a secondary cause of death.
Whooping Cough.—Five deaths were registered during 1915.
The first case was a little girl, aged 18 months, who died in March, meningitis
being given as a secondary cause of death. Two deaths occurred in
July, and were male children aged 3 years and 5 months respectively. In
the second case broncho-pneumonia, and in the first case broncho-pneumonia
and meningitis were given as secondary causes of death. The single death
in August was a female child, aged 15 months, and zymotic enteritis was
given as a secondary cause of death, and in the September death meningitis
was given as a secondary cause.
The three deaths in July and September all occurred in the same road
in Chislehurst.
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