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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 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE No. 51.
| Dockyard. | St. Mary's. | River. | St. George's. | Burrage. | Herbert. | Glyndon. | St. Margaret's. | Central. St. Nicholas'. | Eltham. | Total Houses. | Total Cases. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Houses in which | |||||||||||||
| 1 case occurred | 23 | 16 | 25 | 34 | 16 | 11 | 19 | 17 | 8 | 34 | 23 | 226 | 226 |
| 2 cases occurred | — | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 38 |
| 3 ,, ,, | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 4 ,, ,, | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 „ ,, | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 5 |
| Total Houses | 23 | 17 | 30 | 38 | 18 | 12 | 21 | 18 | 9 | 36 | 27 | 249 | 278 |
Antitoxin. Diphtheria antitoxin is kept at the Town
Hall, the Plumstead Library, and the Eltham Library, and
is supplied to medical practitioners on application, at cost
price, or free where there is inability to pay. The amount
supplied during the year was 36,000 units. The total cost
to the Council was £2 14s. 0d., all of which was recovered.
The corresponding figures in 1926 were as follows:—56,000
units, total cost, £4 4s. Od.; none issued free.
Schick Test. This has not been employed in the area
so far as I am aware, and no artificial measures of immunisation
against the disease have been made use of.
Home Isolation. Five cases were isolated at home.
The same routine was carried out as in the case of scarlet
fever.
ENTERIC FEVER.
Nine cases were notified during the year. No deaths
were certified as due to this disease.