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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TABLE No. 27.
Period elapsing: | Total. | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under 1 month. | 1-2 months. | 2-3 months. | Over 3 months. | |||
1920 | No. of cases | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 |
1921 | Do. | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
1922 | Do. | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 22 |
Home Isolation. Five cases, or 11 per cent, of all cases,
were isolated at home, and in no instance did a return case
occur.
Multiple Cases. The following Table No. 28, shows the
house distribution of cases of diphtheria in Wards :
TABLE No. 28.
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 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 16 | 13 | 30 | 27 | 16 | 103 | 48 | 295 | 295 |
2 cases occurred | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 39 | 78 |
3 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 15 | 45 |
4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 | 8 |
5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 5 |
6 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 6 |
Total houses | 6 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 18 | 16 | 34 | 31 | 22 | 126 | 61 | 353 | 437 |