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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 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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In poor districts many sick children derive obvious benefit by
removal from dirty, unhealthy surroundings, with unsuitable or
insufficient food, to the proper diet with skilled nursing and
attention that is obtained in a well-managed hospital ward. In
many other instances also, by removal of the patient to hospital
the bread-winner is enabled to continue at work, a condition
which often would not be permitted if a case of Infectious disease
was being kept at home. He is therefore enabled to support the
rest of his family, and so prevent much additional hardship and
suffering.
The 1,617 cases notified are in Table III, page 45, distributed
into wards, and the number of cases of each disease is also given.
The total notification rate per 1,000 of population for each Ward during the past three years has been as follows:—
| 1905. | 1906. | 1907. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beckton & North Woolwich Ward | 9.2 | 7.2 | 9.9 |
| Central Ward-East | 11.2 | 8.2 | 10.5 |
| Central Ward-West | 16.1 | 10.8 | 13.3 |
| Manor Park Ward | 12.7 | 8.5 | 16.1 |
| Plashet Ward-East | 10.1 | 8.2 | 9.5 |
| Plashet Ward-West | 10.1 | 11.8 | 9.0 |
SMALL POX.
There were no cases of Small Pox in the Borough during
1907.
On two occasions suspicious cases were reported to me, and
I at once visited and examined the patients, but in both instances
decided they were not cases of this disease. The first occasion
was in February, when no less than six persons in the same house
were affected, the disease, however, proved to be only Chicken
Pox, but of a rather severe type in one or two of the patients
attacked.