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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 1899
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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| Manor Park Ward. | Plashet Ward. | Central Ward. | Beckton & North Woolw'h Ward. | Total. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1898 | 1899 | 1898 | 1899 | 1898 | 1899 | 1898 | 1899 | 1898 | 1899 | |
| January | - | - | 2 | 4 | - | 3 | - | - | 2 | 7 |
| February | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | — | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| March | 1 | - | 1 | 7 | - | - | 4 | 9 | ||
| April | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 |
| May | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 4 | 1 | |
| June | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | — | — | — | 2 | 1 |
| July | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | - | - | 3 | 8 | |
| August | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 1 | - | 6 | 4 |
| September | - | 5 | 5 | - | 3 | - | - | 3 | 8 | 8 |
| October | 5 | - | 5 | 2 | 2 | - | 3 | 12 | 7 | |
| November | 9 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 29 | 26 |
| December | 1 | 5 | — | 4 | 3 | 6 | — | — | 4 | 15 |
| Totals | 19 | 21 | 29 | 26 | 28 | 36 | 3 | 9 | 79 | 92 |
There were 92 cases of Typhoid Fever reported, which resulted
in 16 fatal cases, as against 79 reported cases and 10 deaths for
1898. The majority of the cases were of a mild type; hence the
small number of deaths (16) in proportion to the number of cases
(92), 25 cases were removed to Hospital.
In every case the residence of the patient was examined as to
the sanitary condition of the external drainage, as also the drains
inside the house, and the water supply used for domestic purposes,
and also that used for flushing the w.c. Enquiries were also made
as to the food and milk supply. The sum of £6 17s. was paid as
compensation for bedding destroyed after this disease.
Diarrhcea.
One hundred and thirty-nine deaths were attributed to
Diarrhœa; 137 of these were under the age of five years, and 2 over,
and most of the deaths occurred during July, August and September.
It appears to me that the higher the temperature and the