London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Woolwich 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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| 1898. | The Medical Officer of Health, Plumstead, recommended Notification of Consumption. |
| 1900. | Notices printed and distributed at public-houses, workshops, etc., warning persons against spitting. |
| 1901. | Voluntary Notification of Consumption and Disinfection of infected rooms begun. |
| 1902. | Pocket spittoons supplied cost price (6d.). |
| 1903. | Borough Council commenced to maintain beds at Peppard Sanatorium. |
| Letters sent to public-house managers asking them to arrange for wet cleansing of floors, and avoid dry sweeping, which helps to cause the excessive mortality from Phthisis among public-house servants. | |
| 1906. | Guardians commenced Open-air Treatment of Phthisis at Woolwich Infirmary. |
| 1910. | Open-air Shelters for night use of Consumptives in their own gardens, furnished on loan by the Borough Council. |
| 1911. | Woolwich Tuberculosis Dispensary started. |
CANCER.
86. There were 119 deaths from cancer (malignant tumour),
giving a death-rate of 0.97, compared with 0.83, 0.75, 0.93,
0.88, and 1.02, in the five preceding years. 63 of the deaths
were in males, and 56 in females. 11 only of the deaths were
in persons under 45. The highest mortality was in Woolwich
Parish. The London death-rate was 1.05 in 1911. More
than one-third of the deaths occurred in public institutions.