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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 1916

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]

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Table: TABLE XIX.(C hicken- P ox.)

TABLE XIX.

(C hicken- P ox.)

Date.No. of Cases.How dealt with.
1916. Feb. 21Convalescent on arrival.
„ 31Ditto.
April 282Ditto.
May 51Landed before arrival in Thames.
June 14-196Removed to Port Sanitary Hospital.
„ 301Landed before arrival in Thames.
July 14Isolated on board.
Aug. 183Landed before arrival in Thames.
Total19

Table: TABLE XX. (Paratyphoid.)

TABLE XX. (Paratyphoid.)

Date.No. of Cases.How dealt with.
1916.
May 101Proceeded home.

Table: TABLE XXI. (M eningitis.)

TABLE XXI. (M eningitis.)

Date.No. of Cases.How dealt with.
1916. March 181Died and body buried at sea.
Sept. 121Ditto.
Total2

Table: TABLE XXII. (C erebro- S pinal M eningitis.)

TABLE XXII. (C erebro- S pinal M eningitis.)

Date.No, of Cases.Date.No. of Cases.
1916.1916.
Brought forward14
June 131*Sept. 291
Aug 141Oct. 142*
„ 293*„ 191
Sept. 135„ 202
„ 154Nov. 222
Forward14Total22

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* Of these six cases, four were fatal, and the bodies were buried at sea. All the remainder were removed at other
ports, none arriving in the Thames.