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Romford 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford RDC]

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I received notification of 152 cases of infectious diseases during the year. The different diseases are thus tabulated :—

Erysipelas21
Diphtheria36
Puerperal1
Scarlet Fever67
Small Pox1
Typhoid Fever26
152

Forty-nine of these cases were removed to the Isolation Hospital
at Chadwell Heath or to Barking, pending the completion of our
own Hospital.
The following is a succinct account of the different infectious
diseases requiring action by your sanitary officials during the year.
My practice is to request the Sanitary Inspector to visit each house as
soon as I receive notification of the existence of infectious disease
there, visiting myself subsequently all those cases which I consider
require my doing so.
Small Pox.—One case was notified. This occurred at the "West
Ham Small Pox Hospital, which is situated in the Parish of
Dagenham.

Scarlet Fever.—Sixty-seven cases of this disease were notified from various parts of the district—the localities where it prevailed being, in the order of the number of cases, as under:—

Hornchurch and neighbourhood37
Dagenham „ „22
Havering „ „0
Rainham and Wennington2
Upminster and Neighbourhood5
Collier Row0
Great Warley1
67