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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
Bromley 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley Borough]
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| Month. | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | April. | May. | June. | July. | Aug. | Sept | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | Totals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 31 | |
| Diphtheria | 1 | 1 | — | — | 2 | — | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | |||
| Enteric | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | — | 9 | |
| Puerperal | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | ||||
| Fever | |||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 24 | |
| 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 78 |
The removal of patients is promptly arranged by telephonic
communication with the Isolation Hospital.
The premises are disinfected directly after the patient's removal.
For this purpose formaldehyde (30 tablets per 1,000
cubic feet) is employed, the walls being previously sprayed with
a 2 percent. solution of Schering's Formalin.
The notices required to be used in c?ses of infectious disease,
containing instructions to householders and the precautions to
be observed, have been thoroughly revised.
SCARLET FEVER.
Average of the 10 years, 1894-1903 = 80.9 cases.
31 cases were notified during the year—27 of these were
removed to the Isolation Hospital, and the others were treated
in their own homes.
The disease was of a mild type, there being only ore death.
80 percent. of the cases occurred in the houses of the working
classes.