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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 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
915 patients were admitted during 1947.
100 per cent. of the notified cases of diphtheria and 69.0 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 915 patients admitted during the year suffered from the following
complaints:—
| Ilford | Barking | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admissions | Deaths | Admissions | Deaths | |
| Scarlet Fever | 134 | — | 63 | — |
| Surgical Scarlet Fever | 4 | — | 1 | — |
| Diphtheria | 12 | 1 | 5 | — |
| Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis | 24 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 102 | 7 | 1 | — |
| Chicken Pox | 4 | 1 | — | — |
| Whooping Cough | 2 | — | 2 | — |
| Whooping Cough and Pneumonia | 10 | 2 | — | — |
| Measles and German Measles | 17 | — | 1 | — |
| Measles and Pneumonia | 14 | 1 | — | — |
| Measles and Bronchitis | 1 | — | — | — |
| Erysipelas | 12 | 1 | 4 | — |
| Dermatitis of Face | 4 | — | — | — |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 22 | — | 3 | — |
| Abortions | 23 | — | — | — |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 4 | — | — | — |
| Staphylococcal Conjunctivitis | 4 | — | — | — |
| Staphylococcal Dermatitis (Neonatorum) | 5 | — | — | — |
| Rheumatic Chorea | 2 | — | — | — |
| Ulcerative Colitis | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| Bronchitis | 10 | — | — | — |
| Laryngitis and Bronchitis | 1 | — | — | — |
| Pharyngitis | 5 | — | — | — |
| Tonsillitis | 8 | — | 1 | — |
| Acute Follicular and Streptococcal Tonsillitis | 15 | - | 116 | - |
| Haemolytic Streptococcal Tonsillitis | 6 | — | 2 | — |
| Influenza | 7 | — | 1 | — |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 1 | — | — | — |
| Meningococcal Meningitis | 3 | — | 1 | — |
| Pneumococcal Meningitis | 3 | 3 | 1 | — |
| Tuberculous Diseases—Pulmonary | 100 | 44 | — | — |
| —Others | 2 | — | — | — |
| Acute Rheumatism | 5 | — | 1 | — |
| Mumps | 1 | — | — | — |
| Scabies | 2 | — | — | — |
| Enteritis | 13 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Food Poisoning | 1 | — | — | — |
| Dysentery | 3 | — | — | — |
| Infective Hepatitis | 1 | — | — | — |
| Carcinoma of Kidney | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Encephalocele and Meningocele | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Miliary Tuberculosis associated with tuberculosis, broncho-pneumonia & pertussis | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Cerebral Haemorrhage (Pontine) due to hypertension | 1 | 1 | — | |
| Bronchial Pneumonia and Mediastritis due to retropharyngeal abscess | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Inanition, spina bifida and hydrocephalus | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Ruptured aneurism of left common iliac artery | 1 | 1 | — | |