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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
East Ham 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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The Notification Rate for the whole District for 1897 was
12.15 per 1,000.
Manor Park Ward 11.9 per 1,000
Plashet Ward 11.3 „ „
Central Ward 16 „ „
Beckton & North Woolwich Ward 6 „ „
Zymotic Death Rate 2 6 „ „ per annum.
Houses fumigated 546
SCARLATINA.
This shows an increase of 167 cases.
| Manor Park Ward. | Plashet Ward. | Central Ward. | Beckton & North Woolw'h Ward. | Totals. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 | 1897 | 1896 | 1897 | 1896 | 1897 | 1896 | 1897 | 1896 | 1897 | |
| January | 5 | 3 | 15 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 31 | 16 | |
| February | 4 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 25 | 21 |
| March | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 24 | |
| April | i | 3 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 15 |
| May | 2 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 10 | 2 | , . | 16 | 26 |
| June | 6 | 6 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 19 | 3 | , , | 34 | 38 |
| July | 7 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 20 | 5 | . . | 23 | 32 |
| August | 12 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 21 | . . | . . | 28 | 28 |
| September | 3 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 41 |
| October | 5 | 50 | 12 | 19 | 2 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 90 |
| November | 2 | 19 | 6 | 16 | 6 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 20 | 60 |
| December | 6 | 13 | 13 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 27 | 43 | |
| Total .. | 53 | 107 | 113 | 141 | 69 | 170 | 3, | 16 | 267 | 434 |
This increase occurs chiefly in the Manor Park and Central
Wards. In the Beckton and North Woolwich Ward the
decrease is very remarkable, and it will be noticed that during
the summer months of May, June, July, and August no cases
were reported.