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. 51.
5 | ||
Number of cases admitted during the year | 87 | |
Number remaining in on the 31st December | 9 | |
47 days | ||
(c) Reasons for admission :— | ||
Malnutrition, Marasmus and Debility | 39 | |
Vomiting, Dyspepsia and Constipation | 25 | |
Rickets | 6 | |
Observation | 6 | |
Diarrhoea | 5 | |
Bronchitis | 2 | |
Miscellaneous | 4 | |
87 | ||
(i) In good health | 55 | |
(ii) Improved | 14 | |
(iii) No improvement | 7 | |
76 | ||
(c) Number of cases of infectious diseases :— | ||
(i) Measles | - | |
(ii) Whooping cough | - | |
(iii) Epidemic diarrhoea | - | |
(iv) Chicken pox | 1 | |
(/) Number of deaths | 7 | |
(4) Fever. Nil. | ||
(5) Smallpox. Nil. | ||
(6) Other. |