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Southwark 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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DISINFECTION.
The total number of disinfections of rooms during the year by the
Council's disinfecting staff was 6,467. Of this number 3,136 rooms were
disinfected after the occurrence of the ordinary notifiable infectious
diseases, as against 2,576 rooms in 1927. 2,692 periodical sprayings of
rooms occupied by Phthisical patients were also carried out during the
year.
639 verminous rooms were sulphured and otherwise cleansed by
the Council's staff during the year, as against 627 in 1927.
Among the total number of disinfections (6,467) it was found
necessary to strip 76 rooms. Of these 39 were in relation to the
notifiable diseases and 37 after the termination of cases of Phthisis.
TABLE 42.
Return of Families Admitted into the Council's Reception House during the Year 1928.
| 1928. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Smallpox. | Other Diseases, &c. | Verminous Persons. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week Ending- | No. of Families | No. of Persons | No. of Days. | No. of Families | No. of Persons | No. of Days. | No. of Families | No. of Persons | No. of Days. | No. of Families | No. of Persons | No. of Daw. | No. of Families | No. of Persons | No. of Days. |
| Jan. 7 | 1 | 3 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 21 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 28 | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Feb. 4 | — | — | — | 2 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 35 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 18 | 1 | 3 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 25 | 1 | 2 | 6 | — | — | — | 1 | 4 | 60 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| March 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 10 | 1 | 4 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 17 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 24 | 2 | 7 | 21 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 31 | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| April 7 | 2 | 7 | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 14 | 1 | 3 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 21 | 3 | 5 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 28 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 12 | 2 | 5 | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 19 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 26 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| June 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 16 | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| „ 23 „ 30 | — | — | — | 1 | 5 | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Crd. fwd. | 18 | 53 | 157 | 10 | 28 | 89 | 3 | 11 | 95 | — | — | — | — | — | — |