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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 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Table: TABLE No. 51.

TABLE No. 51.

(a) Number of cases in hospital on the 1st January, 19235
Number of cases admitted during the year87
Number remaining in on the 31st December9
(b) Average duration of stay47 days
(c) Reasons for admission :—
Malnutrition, Marasmus and Debility39
Vomiting, Dyspepsia and Constipation25
Rickets6
Observation6
Diarrhoea5
Bronchitis2
Miscellaneous4
87
(d) Number of cases discharged :—
(i) In good health55
(ii) Improved14
(iii) No improvement7
76
(c) Number of cases of infectious diseases :—
(i) Measles-
(ii) Whooping cough-
(iii) Epidemic diarrhoea-
(iv) Chicken pox1
(/) Number of deaths7
(4) Fever. Nil.
(5) Smallpox. Nil.
(6) Other.