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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 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
965 patients were admitted during 1946.
100 per cent, of the notified cases of diphtheria and 74.8 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 965 patients admitted during the year suffered from the following complaints:—
| Ilford | Barking | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admissions | Deaths | Admissions | Deaths | |
| Surgical Scarlet Fever | 2 | — | 1 | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 157 | — | 67 | — |
| Diphtheria | 11 | — | 4 | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 90 | 11 | 7 | — |
| Chicken Pox | 4 | — | 2 | — |
| Whooping Cough | 8 | — | 1 | — |
| Whooping Cough and Pneumonia | — | — | 1 | — |
| Whooping Cough and Bronchitis | — | — | 1 | — |
| Measles and German Measles | 19 | — | 8 | — |
| Measles and Pneumonia | 5 | — | — | — |
| Measles and Bronchitis | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| Erysipelas | 19 | 1 | 4 | — |
| Dysentery | 6 | — | — | — |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 20 | — | 3 | — |
| Puerperal Varicella | 1 | — | — | — |
| Acute Purulent Bronchitis | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| Bronchitis | 11 | — | 1 | — |
| Bronchitis and Asthma | 2 | — | — | — |
| Influenza | 4 | — | — | — |
| Pneumococcal Meningitis | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Tuberculous Diseases—Pulmonary | 121 | 39 | — | — |
| Tuberculous Diseases—Other forms | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Acute Rheumatism | 7 | 2 | — | — |
| Tonsillitis | 9 | — | 3 | — |
| Acute Follicular and Streptococcal Tonsillitis | 11 | - | 16 | - |
| Mumps | 2 | — | 1 | — |
| Scabies | 6 | — | — | — |
| Enteritis | 2 | — | — | — |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 1 | — | — | — |
| Infective Hepatitis | 4 | — | — | — |
| Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis | 2 | — | — | — |
| Abortions | 21 | — | 2 | — |
| Acute Aseptic Meningitis | 1 | — t | — | — |
| Laryngitis and Bronchitis | 4 | — | — | — |
| Staphylococcal Dermatitis | 3 | — | — | — |
| Staphylococcal Conjunctivitis | 4 | — | — | — |
| Malaria | 2 | — | — | — |
| Typhoid—Para-typhoid Fever | 3 | — | — | — |
| Food Poisoning | 3 | — | — | — |
| Cancer | 3 | 1 | — | — |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 4 | — | — | — |
| Cerebral Astrocytoma, broncho pneumonia | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Coronary Thrombosis | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Acute Ulcerative Colitis | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Subarachnoid haemorrhage due to ruptured aneurism of right middle cerebral artery | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Others | 225 | — | 34 | — |
Post-Mortems were held by H.M. Coroner in connection with 16 ot the
above 65 deaths.