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Woolwich 1902

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Woolwich Parish1.561.67
Plumstead Parish1.92.09
Eltham Parish2.331.08
London2.72.3

38. 189 cases were removed to Hospital, or 81 per cent.
The case mortality was 9.9 per cent. compared with 8.8 in
1901, and 10.5 in London; 19 cases died in hospital giving a
case mortality of 10.0; 4 cases died at home—case mortality,
9.0. In 1901, the case mortality was 9.5 at hospital and 3.6
at home.
39. The largest number of cases occurred in St. Margaret's
and Glyndon Wards, but the largest number of deaths in the
River Ward.
40. School Attendance.—Ancona Road was the School most
affected, there being 28 cases among pupils of this school.
No other school had more than 10 cases; 25 of the 28
cases at Ancona Eoad School occurred in November and
December.
41. Up to the end of October the number of cases of
Diphtheria did not attain the number reached in the corresponding
period of 1901. In November and December,
however, there were 81 cases of the disease, 25 being pupils of
the Ancona Road School.
Previous to this, 7 cases occurred in four neighbouring
houses in Eichmond Place, for which personal infection was
probably responsible. Another child, living in Eichmond
Place, with no symptoms of Diphtheria or other diseases,
having a scab in one nostril was examined by the medical
attendant and found to have Diphtheria bacilli.