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 Romford]
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No | Date. | Disease. | Locality. | Origin of Disease. Action taken. | Result. |
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31 | June 18 | Typhoid Fever | Rainham | One case. Imported. Instructions, &c. | No other case |
32 | ,, 20 | Diphtheria | Wennington | Two more cases in same family as No. 28. | No further case |
33 | „ 30 | Typhoid Fever | Bcacontrec Heath | Two cases in adjacent cottage. Nuisance as in No. 20. | |
34 | July 6 | Scarlet Fever | Havering | Two cases in a farm house, a milk vendor. Caution given that no milk should be brought into the house and that no one in the house should have anything to do with the milk, this was rigorously observed. Cases were isolated, and the premises disinfected in due course. | No other case |
35 | „ 6 | Diphtheria | Hornchurch | Two cases. A local nusiance existing near premises, remedied under notice. Instructions, &c. | No other case |
3G | „ 26 | Diphtheria | Great Warley | One case. See No. 46. | |
37 | 25 | Scarlct Fever | Homchurch Cottage Homes | Two cases. Origin obscure, probably imported. These Homes have a private Isolation Hospital, unto which all infectious cases are removed. | |
58 | Aug. 1 | Scarlet Fever | South Hornchurch | One case, mild. Probably imported. Instructions, &c. | No other case |
39 | ,, 9 | Scarlet Fever | Beacontree neath | Two cases in adjoining cottage. Instructions, &c. | No other case |
40 | „ 9 | Scarlet Fever | Harold Wood | One case. Infection imported. Instructions, &c. | No other case |
41 | ,, 9 | Scarlet Fever | Harold Wood | Ditto. Ditto. | No other case |
42 | ,, 22 | Scarlet Fever | Harold Wood | Another case. Frobably infected from last case. | No other case |
43 | Sept. 1 | Typhoid Fever | Dagenham | One case. Local sanitary defects as in No. 24. Instructions, &c. | |
44 | ,, 9 | Diphtheria | Great Warley | Two cases. See No. 46. | |
45 | „ 10 | Typhoid Fever | Hornchurch | One case. Origin obscure. Instructions, &c. | No other case |