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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 1929

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Table: TABLE No. 55.

TABLE No. 55.

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 occurred28233791914322983214264315329329
2 cases occurred91412147..325524692
3 „ „2........2........1......515
4 „ „1......11..1....1......520
5 „ „........1..................15
8 „ „........................1..18
Total Houses402441102318363783518314917387469
Military..............................27

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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 86,000 units. The
total cost to the Council was £6 9s. 0d., all of which was
recovered.
Schick Test. There are no clinics in the area where
Schick testing and immunisation are carried out. Occasionally,
however, parents request that their children should be
immunised, and in these instances, through the kindness of
the Medical Officer of Health of Deptford, I have been able
to refer them to him.