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6. Consumptive patients should sleep by themselves.
7. Mothers who are consumptive should not suckle their children and
should not themselves make use of the children's feeding bottles, cups, spoons,
etc.
8. Over-fatigue, intemperance, bad air, dusty occupations and dark dirty
rooms favour consumption.
II.—Suggestions for those rvho live in a house where a Consumptive patient
has died, or whence he has removed.
1. The rooms which have been occupied by consumptive people can be
disinfected free of charge, on application to the Medical Officer of Health, 43,
White Horse Street, Commercial Road, E.
2. Children recovering from Measles and Whooping Cough are very liable
to catch Consumption unless they are specially cared for.
3. Should any other member of the household be noticed to be " declining,"
medical advice should be sought at once; delay may be dangerous and
fatal.
Homeless.
113 deaths occurred at the Whitechapel Infirmary and Workhouse, 13 at
the Mile End Infirmary, and 6 at the St. George's Infirmary, among persons
admitted from the streets without an address, or temporary lodgings of any
kind. They were described as homeless. This number does not include
those admitted from Common Lodging Houses, nor does it include those
deaths that occurred at various Lunatic Asylums, where no addresses
could be given.
110 such deaths occurred at the latter institutions, 33 stated to have
been taken from the Limehouse District, 7 were said to belong to St. George's,
14 to Mile End Old Town, and 46 to Whitechapel.
Appendicitis.
56 deaths occurred at the London Hospital during the year from Appendicitis,
but 12 only belonged to this Borough. The remaining 44 were
residents of neighbouring Boroughs. Two deaths occurred from the same
disease at the East London Hospital for Women and Children, of which one
belonged to this district.