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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

Rotherhithe 1893

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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Bakehouses
Have been inspected twice. In some of them alterations which have proved to be great
improvements have been effected.
Slaughter Houses and Cow-sheds
Have been inspected twice daring the year.
Messrs. W. B. Dick & Co.'s Premises, Rotherhithe Street.
These works were visited many times in the course of the year, and on one occasion the
Sanitary Committee inspected them. Attempts were made by various methods to prevent the
escape of the nauseous fumes. The aid of experts was called in, and experiments were carried
on with a view to lessening the power if not doing away altogether with the escape of the odour.
Evidently the true mode of dealing with the nuisance has not yet been found out.
I am, Gentlemen, yours faithfully,
JOSEPHUS SHAW, Medical Officer of Health.

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Name of Place.Small Pox.Scarlet Fever.Cholera.Typhus Fever.Enteric Fever.Diphtheria.Puerperal Fever.Other Fevers.Erysipelas.MembranousCroupTotals.
Tissington Street..............................-
Trident Street...3......1...............4
Trinity Road..............................-
t'nion Road...10.........6............16
Warndon Street........................1...1
West Lane61........................7
Westlake Road...3.........1............4
William Street...1..................1...2
Wormald Place........................1...1
Yeoman Street...............2......2...4

Table: Thefollowing tabular statement gives the number of deaths due to each form of lungdiseaseandthedeath rate per thousand per annum for the last eight years:—

Thefollowing tabular statement gives the number of deaths due to each form of lungdiseaseandthedeath rate per thousand per annum for the last eight years:—

1893.1892.1891.1890.1889.1888-9.1887-8.1886-7.
Phthisis882.2771.9671.4721.61641.38611.37902.01142.7
Bronchitis1373.41253.11382.61262.59811.75771.731142.591493.54
Pneumonia531.3451.1481.2651.2535.7130.67711.636.85
Bron.Pneumonia491.535.89471.2571.2114.4523.5134.7723.55
Pleurisy4.12.054.095.092.0420453.07none
pleuropneumonia6153.072.041.021.0225.114.091.024
Emphysemanonenone............1.022..................