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 Woolwich]
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34. 1,453 notifications were received from school-teachers,
compared with 646, 661, 1,240, 465, and 825 in the five preceding
years. The mortality per cent. of notifications was 4.8, compared
with 3.8, 2.3, 2.8, and 3.8 in the four preceding years.
35. The following table gives the number of deaths and death-rates from Measles for the past five years, and two preceding quinquennia, in each parish (as far as known), and the death rate in London:—
Year. | Woolwich. | Plumstead. | Eltham. | The Borough. | London. | ||||
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No. | Rate. | No. | Rate. | No. | Rate. | No. | Rate. | Rate. | |
1891-5 (average) | 20 | 0.49 | 29 | 0.51 | Not recorded | 49 | 0.51 | 0.59 | |
1896-1900 (average) | 34 | 0.81 | 36 | 0.57 | Not recorded | 70 | 0.67 | 0.57 | |
1901 | 11 | 0.26 | 9 | 0.13 | 1 | 0.14 | 21 | 0.18 | 0.43 |
1902 | 10 | 0.24 | 31 | 0.43 | ... | ... | 41 | 0.33 | 0.51 |
1903 | 8 | 0.19 | 14 | 0.20 | 3 | 0.28 | 25 | 0.20 | 0.40 |
1904 | 11 | 0.26 | 15 | 0.21 | 2 | 0.18 | 28 | 0.22 | 0.49 |
1905 | 4 | 0.10 | 8 | 0.11 | 1 | 0.09 | 13 | 0.10 | 0.36 |
1906 | 7 | 0.18 | 21 | 0.28 | ... | ... | 28 | 0.24 | 0.40 |
1907 | 35 | 0.87 | 28 | 0.37 | 7 | 0.55 | 70 | 0.54 | 0.38 |