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 Malden and Coombe]
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Cases Treated at Tolworth Isolation Hospital.
Old Maiden. | New Maiden. | Coombe. | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Scarlet Fever | ... | 42 | 1 | 43 |
Diphtheria | 1 | 17 | ... | 18 |
Membraneous Croup | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Typhoid Fever | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Total | 1 | 59 | 1 | 61 |
The monthly distribution is as follows:—
Measles | Erysipelas | Diphtheria | Scarlet Fever | Ty-phoid Fever | Puerperal Fever | Tuber-culosis (all forms) | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
January | ... | ... | 3 | 7 | ... | ... | 2 | ... | 12 |
February | ... | ... | 1 | 3 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 4 |
March | 40 | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 4 | ... | 46 |
April | 90 | 2 | 3 | 3 | ... | ... | 3 | ... | 101 |
May | 21 | 2 | 4 | ... | ... | ... | 3 | ... | 30 |
June | 4 | ... | 2 | 2 | ... | ... | 3 | ... | 11 |
July | ... | ... | 3 | 3 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 6 |
August | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 |
September | 2 | ... | 1 | 2 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 6 |
October | ... | 1 | 2 | 11 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 15 |
November | 22 | 1 | 1 | 16 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 41 |
December | 7 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | ... | 1 | 1 | 18 |
Totals | 186 | 8 | 22 | 54 | 1 | ... | 18 | 2 | 291 |
Note.—Two cases notified as Scarlet Fever and sent to Isolation Hospital, were
returned as not Scarlet Fever, one being Measles and the other Nil.
One case notified as Diphtheria and sent to Isolation Hospital, was returned as
Nil.