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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
City of London 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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Cases of Illness, &c., other than Dangerous Infectious Disorders reported
on Incoming Vessels during 1915.
| Accident | 2 | Brought forward | 98 |
| Adenitis | 2 | Heat Apoplexy | 2 |
| Abdominal Tumour | 1 | Hernia | 1 |
| Appendicitis | 4 | Influenza | 5 |
| Aneurysm of Aorta | 1 | Injury to Spinal Cord | 1 |
| Alcoholic Poisoning | 2 | Infantile Convulsions | 1 |
| Asthma | 1 | Inanition | 1 |
| Bleeding from Stomach | 1 | Intestinal Obstruction | 1 |
| Broncho-Pneumonia | 2 | Java Fever | 1 |
| Bronchitis | 3 | Kidney Disease | 1 |
| Bright's Disease | 1 | Lobar Pneumonia | 3 |
| Broken Neck | 1 | Laryngitis | 1 |
| Cancer | 4 | Malaria | 11 |
| "Cold" | 2 | Morbus Cordis | 1 |
| Cellulitis | 3 | Mucous Colitis | 1 |
| Catarrh | 1 | Meningitis | 1 |
| Congenital Meningitis | 1 | Mediterranean Fever | 1 |
| Cut Throat | 1 | Malarial Fever | 2 |
| Cerebral Haemorrhage | 2 | Mumps | 2 |
| Colitis | 1 | Nephritis | 3 |
| Chill | 1 | Neurasthenia | 1 |
| Constipation | 1 | Pneumonia | 10 |
| Colic | 2 | Pleurisy | 8 |
| Cerebral Apoplexy | 1 | Poisoned Foot | 1 |
| Dropsy | 1 | Paralytic Dementia | 1 |
| Dysentery | 12 | Paraplegia | 3 |
| Diabetic Eclampsia | 1 | Parotid Abscess | 1 |
| Diabetes | 1 | Paratyphoid | 1 |
| Dengue | 1 | Peiitonitis | 1 |
| Diarrhoea | 1 | Quinsy | 1 |
| Enteritis | 4 | Rheumatism | 4 |
| Fatty Heart | 1 | Suicide | 2 |
| Fibrositis | 1 | Sore Throat | 1 |
| Gastritis | 1 | Senile Decay | 1 |
| Gastric Ulcer | 2 | Stomatitis | 1 |
| Gonorrhceal Rheumatism | ] | Syphilis | 5 |
| G astro-Enteritis | 2 | Swollen Knee | 1 |
| Heart Disease | 18 | Tonsilitis | 1 |
| Headache | 1 | Vomiting | 1 |
| Hepatitis | 2 | Venereal Disease | 5 |
| Heat Exhaustion | 2 | —- | |
| Heat Stroke | 5 | Total | 188 |
| Carried forward | 98 |
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
It being desirable that Chicken-pox, Cerebro-spinal Fever (Epidemic Cerebrospinal
Meningitis) and Acute Polio-myelitis or Acute Polio-encephalitis should be
added to the list of diseases notifiable under Section 56 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, and that the additions should be permanent, steps were accordingly taken to
obtain the consent of the Local Government Board to this course. This was granted,
and the required public notice will be duly published.