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 RDC]
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I received notification of 152 cases of infectious diseases during the year. The different diseases are thus tabulated :—
Erysipelas | 21 |
Diphtheria | 36 |
Puerperal | 1 |
Scarlet Fever | 67 |
Small Pox | 1 |
Typhoid Fever | 26 |
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.
Hornchurch and neighbourhood | 37 |
Dagenham „ „ | 22 |
Havering „ „ | 0 |
Rainham and Wennington | 2 |
Upminster and Neighbourhood | 5 |
Collier Row | 0 |
Great Warley | 1 |
67 |