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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 1940

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Table: TABLE No. 4— continued.

TABLE No. 4— continued.

Sample No.Article.Formal or Informal.Result of Analysis.Result of Legal Proceedings or other Action.
354LardInformalContained foreign vegetable fat, not less than 50 per cent.—
397Quinine, Ammoniated Tincture of.InformalAmmonia, 33 per cent. deficient.—
425Quinine, Ammoniated Tincture of.FormalAmmonia, 30 per cent. deficient.—
440MilkFormalContained 1 per cent. of added water.—
444Milk, sterilisedInformalContained 1 per cent. of added water.

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Food Poisoning. The number of notifications of cases of food poisoning was
27.
PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Notifications. The total number of notifications received was 659. They
relate to the following disease:—

Table: TABLE No. 5.

TABLE No. 5.

Diphtheria61Ophthalmia Neonatorum17
Scarlet fever128Encephalitis Lethargica1
Enteric fever (including Paratyphoid)1Dysentery4
Puerperal fever5Cerebrospinal Meningitis32
Puerperal pyrexia19Poliomyelitis2
Erysipelas44Polio-Encephalitis1
Smallpox—Zymotic Enteritis21
Pneumonia231Measles83
Malaria2Whooping Cough7

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Diphtheria. The amount of anti-toxin supplied to medical practitioners
during the year was 4,000 units. The number of children immunised during the
year was 239,