Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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APPENDIX III.
Return of the number of cases of Infectious Disease notified to the Ministry of
Health during the year 1932, and of deaths from the diseases notified.
This Table includes all cases actually introduced or occurring within the Port, but does not include cases reported as having occurred on vessels during the voyage which had either recovered or been removed from the vessel before arrival at Gravesend.
Number. | Deaths. | Number. | Deaths. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-pox | 2 | — | Brought forward | 86 | — |
Scarlet Fever | 8 | — | Continued Fever | — | — |
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 7 | — | Dysentery | 3 | — |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | — | — | |||
Enteric Fever (Typhoid and Paratyphoid) | 11 | — | Erysipelas | 2 | — |
Tuberculosis— | |||||
Pneumonia | 8 | — | Respiratory | 95 | 2 |
Cholera | — | — | Other kinds | 3 | — |
Plague | — | — | Malaria | 12 | — |
Puerperal Fever | — | — | Chicken-pox | 20 | — |
Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | Measles (including German Measles) | 11 | — |
Acute Poliomyelitis | — | — | |||
Acute Polioencephalitis | — | — | Whooping Cough | 2 | — |
Encephalitis Lethargica | — | — | Other Diseases | 12 | 1 |
Typhus Fever | — | — | |||
Relapsing Fever | — | — | |||
Total | 196 | 3 | |||
Carried forward | 36 | — |
APPENDIX IV.—C holera.
Date. 1932. | Name of Vessel. | Where from. | No. of Cases. | Passenger or Crew Rating. | How dealt with. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
(a) Landed from Vessels—Nil. | |||||
(b) Died, Landed elsewhere or well on Arrival— | |||||
Oct. 13 | ss. "Patroclus" | Dairen | 3 | Crew | Landed at Kobe. |
Total | 3 | (Crew) |
APPENDIX V.—Small-pox.
Date. 1932. | Name of Vessel. | Where from. | No. of Cases | Passenger or Crew 3. Rating. | How dealt with |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
(a) Landed from Vessels— | |||||
Sept. 14 | Sailing Barge " Blue Mermaid " | Mistley, Essex | 1 | Crew | Admitted to London County Council Hospital. |
Nov. 6 | ss. " Lorca " | Basra | 1 | Crew | Admitted to London County Council South Wharf Hospital. |
Total | 2 | (Crew) | |||
(b) Died, Landed elsewhere or well on Arrival— | |||||
Jan. 20 | ss. "City of Perth" | Dalny | 1 | Crew | Landed at Dalny. |
Feb. 21 | ss. "Merkara" | Calcutta | 2 | Crew | Landed at Aden. |
Mar. 20 | ss. "Cheshire" | Rangoon | 1 | Crew | Landed at Rangoon. |
„ 23 | ss. "Tainui" | Wellington | 1 | Pass. | Landed at Southampton. |
June 3 | ss. "Comorin" | Brisbane | 1 | Crew | Landed at Marseilles. |
Nov. 4 | ss. "Floristan" | Basra | 1 | Crew | Landed at Aden. |
„ 22 | ss. "Jervis Bay" | . . Brisbane | 1 | Pass. | Died. Buried at sea. |
„ 29 | ss. "British Splendour" | Abadan | Crew (10 Crew) | 1 Landed at Gibraltar. | |
3 Landed at Rouen. | |||||
Total | 12 | (2 Passengers) |