London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Marylebone 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone]
This page requires JavaScript
18
valent in this District during the year, the mortality being
rather more than double that of London. In London the
number of deaths from whooping cough was 2,160.
Diarrhœa was returned as the cause of 4,376 deaths in
London. It was very prevalent during the third quarter
of the year, the temperature during that quarter being above
the average. In this District onlv 5 deaths, all of which
O O '
took place in the third quarter, and were all of young
children, were returned as caused by diarrhoea.
Dr. Klein has found the bacillus enteriditis sporogenes
associated with many cases of diarrhœa, also in many
samples of milk. He states that "amongst the sources of
this bacillus are the evacuations of cases of diarrhoea, sewage,
water, soil, and dust polluted with sewage; as also horses7
dung."The spores are highly resistant and have a wide distribution
in nature, so that there is ample opportunity for
them to gain access to milk and other articles of food.
DISINFECTION, &c. The measures taken in dealing with the cases arising in the District outside Guy's Hospital were as follows:—
| Number of rooms fumigated | 84 |
| Number of rooms stripped and cleansed byOwner or Occupier | 87 |
| Do. do. by the Board | 1 |
| Number of notices served, calling the attention of Occupiers of Houses to the provisions of Sections 62 and 65 P.H. (London) Act, 1891 | 76 |
| Number of notices requiring disinfection | 48 |