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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 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]
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(iv) Overcrowding.
The position with regard to overcrowding is shown in the following Table:—
| WARD | Number of Cases July 1936 | No. cases at 31st December | 31 Dec., 1946 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | Number of Cases remedied during year | Number of Cases found during year | Cases at end of year | ||||
| Number cases | No. of persons concerned | |||||||||||||||
| Aged over 10 | Aged under 10 | |||||||||||||||
| Lamorbey E. | 12 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 53 | 12 |
| ” w. | ||||||||||||||||
| Long lands | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | — | - | 1 | - | 10 |
| Birchwood | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| Frognal | 5 | 5 | 6 | - | - | - | _ | 1 | 1 | - | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| North Cray | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| St. Pauls Gray | 4 | 8 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 33 | 8 | |
| Chislehurst Common | 11 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Mottingham | 8 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 24 | 6 | 42 | 8 | |
| Totals | 44 | 51 | 23 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 18 | 21 | 30 | 37 | 43 | 24 | 139 | 58 |
5. Infectious Disease.
524 visits were made to notified cases of infectious disease
(diphtheria, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, etc.).
On the removal of a case to the Isolation Hospital, the
release from quarantine (home cases) or in other necessary
cases, disinfection was immediately carried out by spraying
rooms and their contents with formalin, and the clothing
and bedding was steam disinfected at the disinfecting
station. Public Library books found in any premises in
which infectious or contagious disease occurred were also
disinfected by formalin vapour in a special metal chamber.
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