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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
Ilford 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
825 patients were admitted during 1941.
95.0 per cent, of the cases of diphtheria and 74.7 per cent, of scarlet
fever occurring in the district (excluding those cases treated at the Institutions
at which they were notified, or were transferred to other Isolation Hospitals)
were admitted to the hospital.
The 825 patients admitted during 1941 suffered from the following complaints:—
| Scarlet Fever | 218 | (83) |
| Puerperal Scarlet Fever | 2 | (2) |
| Scarlet Fever and Whooping Cough | 3 | (1) |
| Diphtheria | 46 | (18) |
| Cerebro- spinal Fever | 29 | (12) |
| Enteric Fever | 8 | |
| Tuberculous Diseases—Pulmonary | 127 | |
| ,, ,, Non-Pulmonary | 3 | (1) |
| Pneumonia | 60 | (8) |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 17 | (2) |
| Measles and German Measles | 67 | (29) |
| Measles and Whooping Cough | 3 | |
| Whooping Cough | 41 | (13) |
| Chicken Pox | 2 | (1) |
| Mumps | 2 | |
| Erysipelas | 23 | (7) |
| Pemphigus Neonatorum | 1 | |
| Acute Rheumatism | 4 | |
| Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis | 2 | (1) |
| Scabies | 15 | (4) |
| Influenza | 14 | |
| Verminous Condition | 1 | |
| Bronchitis | 4 | |
| Gastro Enteritis | 2 | |
| Impetigo | 1 | (1) |
| Observation and other cases | 130 | (24) |
| Number of deaths in hospital:— Diphtheria | 2 | |
| Pneumonia | 6 | |
| Pneumonia and Whooping Cough | 1 | |
| Whooping Cough | 8 | (3) |
| Measles and Whooping Cough | 1 | |
| Measles | 1 | |
| Erysipelas | 2 | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | |
| Tuberculous Meningitis | 3 | (1) |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 52 | |
| Cerebro- spinal Fever | 3 | (1) |
| Uraemia | 1 | |
| Staphylococcal Meningitis | 1 | |
| Gastro- colic Fistula, Broncho-pneumonia | 1 | (1) |
| Prematurity and Convulsions | 1 | (1) |
The figures in brackets represent eases admitted from Barking.
Number of patients in Hospital on 1st January, 1941 and 1942,
respectively:—