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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 1928

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Table: TABLE No. 51.

TABLE No. 51.

Dockyard.St. Mary's.River.St. George's.Burrage.HerbertGlyndon.St. Margaret'sCentral.St. Nicholas.Abbey Wood.Well Hall.Sherard.Avery Hill.Total Houses.Total Cases.
Number of Houses in which
1 case occurred25142113812111892214212218228228
2 cases occurred..32..1..21....21532040
3 „ „................1..1....39
4 „ „1......................1..28
5 „ „..1......................2315
Total Houses26182413912131992316232823256300

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Home Isolation. Only four cases were isolated at home.
The same administrative procedure as in scarlet fever was
followed out.
Antitoxin. A supply of Diphtheria antitoxin is stored
at the Town Hall, the Plumstead Library, and the Eltham
Library, and is available to medical practitioners on application,
at cost price, or free where there is inability to pay.
The amount supplied during the year was 52,000 units. The
total cost to the Council was £3 18s. 0d., all of which was
recovered.
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.
ENTERIC FEVER.
During the summer months there was a large number
of cases of paratyphoid fever in London and the Home