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Woolwich 1922
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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Home Isolation. 25 cases, or 4.9 per cent, of all cases,
were isolated at home and in two instances return cases
occurred. The cases were regularly inspected by your Sanitary
Inspectors in order to ascertain that proper precautions
for preventing the spread of infectious disease were being
taken, and in no instance was there any ground for supposing
that the pubhc safety is endangered by home isolation in
suitable cases.
Multiple Cases. The following Table No. 26, shows the
house distribution of cases of scarlet fever in Wards.
TABLE No. 26.
| Dockyard | St. Mary's | River | St. George's | Burrage | Herbert | Glyndon | St. Margaret's | Central | St. Nicholas | Eltham | Total houses | Total Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of houses in which | |||||||||||||
| 1 case occurred | 22 | 15 | 26 | 33 | 26 | 19 | 15 | 36 | 24 | 65 | 64 | 345 | 345 |
| 2 cases occurred | .. | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 43 | 86 |
| 3 ,, „ | 1 | 2 | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 51 |
| 4 „ „ | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 3 | 6 | 24 |
| 5 „ „ | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 5 |
| Total houses | 23 | 20 | 31 | 36 | 33 | 23 | 18 | 45 | 27 | 75 | 81 | 412 | 511 |
DIPHTHERIA.
Notifications. During the year 437 cases of diphtheria
were notified compared with 592 in 1921. The case rate is
shown in Table No. 22.
Return Cases. Below is shown in tabular form the number
of return cases, the period elapsing between date .of discharge
from hospital of the primary case and the date of occurrence
of the secondary case for the years 1920, 1921 and 1922.