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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 No. 57.
Monthly Incidence of Pneumonia.
| Month. | Male. | Female. | Total. | Type. | No. of Deaths | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lobar. | Broncho. | Influenzal. | Acute Primary (not specified). | Acute Primary Pneumonia | Influenzal Pneumonia | ||||
| 1 | 9 | — | |||||||
| 4 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2 | |||||||||
| 9 | 4 | 7 | — | ||||||
| 9 | 2 | — | 2 | 7 | 7 | — | |||
| — | 4 | — | |||||||
| 9 | — | 4 | — | ||||||
| 4 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 7 | — | — | |||||||
| 9 | — | 7 | |||||||
| 1 | 4 | — | |||||||
| 19 | 4 | 1 | — | ||||||
| 71 | |||||||||
ERYSIPELAS, MALARIA AND DYSENTERY.
The number of notifications of Erysipelas was 89, compared
with 65 in 1927.
Twelve cases of Malaria and one case of Dysentery were
notified. Trench Fever ceased to be notifiable on the 31st
December, 1927. No special comment is called for on the
incidence of these diseases.
The induction of malaria for therapeutic purposes is
now a recognized method of treating general paralysis of
the insane in Asylum practice. Malaria so induced is not
notifiable except in so much as it is incumbent upon the
medical practitioner in charge of the patient, if he is of opinion