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c6c327df-758c-4412-9497-495105285938 | 1902, to , 1903 12 - 33 - - - 9 40 153 7 239 250 , 1903, to „ 1904 4 - 89 14 - 8 - 30 94 7 185 151 , 1904, to , 1905 5 18 2 - — 2 - 33 102 12 170 139 , 1905, to „ 1906 11 14 - 9 - - - 36 69 2 150 99 „ 1906,to „ 1907 21 5 5 6 - - - 27 36 7 91 83 „ 1907,to „ 1908 8 †43 12 5 1 1 7 13 29 1 52 53 Total Houses 1,386* 1,206* ... |
741214a6-a950-46aa-b95b-59ce3bd9d787 | 729 1,882 2,447 1,855 4,232 2,615 Estimated Populations 7,800 9,788 3,901 10,188 7,314 9,184 9,106 9,444 13,173 9,500 25,000 13,200 *In Dockyard, St. Mary's and River (South) Wards the number of new houses is probably less than the number of old bouses which have been demolished. †40 flats in Army Quarters, Artillery P... |
2857d73d-3fa8-4298-974a-1113c37b4d52 | The number of births was 3,082, viz., 1,030 in Woolwich Parish, 1,788 in Plumstead, and 264 in Eltham (corrected for children born in the Infirmary, Female Hospital, and the Wood Street "Home for Mothers and Babies,'' whose parents reside outside the Borough); and the birth-rate 24T compared with 25.5 in the previous y... |
a41168e0-e10b-4669-8c52-a0e2a377e1d6 | The following table gives the average birth-rate of the Borough during the years 1901-5, 1906, 1907 and 1908, and for purposes of comparison the corresponding rates of the neighbouring Boroughs, London, and England. The decrease in the Borough has been much greater than that in London. Birth-rate. Average 1901-5. 1906.... |
55074749-1e9d-43e6-8121-51a4ebdd9dc5 | Greenwich Borough 27.6 25.4 24.2 23.5 Lewisham 25.7 23.3 23.8 23.0 West Ham 33.1 30.5 28.6 29.4 East Ham 33.8 28.1 26.3 24.7 Erith 34.1 30.0 29.9 25.9 London 28.2 26.6 25.8 25.2 England and Wales 28.2 27.0 26.3 26.5 Woolwich Borough 29.2 27.7 25.6 24.1 17 7. The following table gives the birth-rate for the Borough and ... |
b899b4d3-96cf-4bd0-a05a-e904ede8db3a | Correction has been made for births in the Infirmary, Female Hospital, and Wood Street "Home for Mothers and Babies," and the births distributed to the Parishes to which they properly belong. Except in Eltham, the decrease has been progressive in each Parish, but greater in Plumstead than in Woolwich. In Eltham, on the... |
c682b708-76aa-4d97-b3e4-0554c4db3933 | Average of 1901-1905 1906 1907 1908 Woolwich Borough 32.5 30.2 29.2 27.7 25.5 24.1 Woolwich Parish 31.1 30.1 29.0 29.2 29.1 26.4 Plumstead ,, 33.3 31.0 30.1 27.8 24.1 23.7 Eltham ,, 22.8 20.6 24.0 22.0 22.4 20.0 8. Illegitimate Births.—61 of the births registered were illegitimate, giving a rate of 20 per 1,000 births,... |
3e04bea9-a997-4ff3-8da0-8ec9eeceb4a0 | The marriage-rate was 13.7 compared with 16.4 and 14.6 in the two preceding years. This great fall in the marriage-rate is an indication of the prevalent local industrial depression. The marriage-rate in London was 17.0 in 1907. b 18 Deaths. 10. Table 1 gives the gross and nett deaths and death-rates in 1908 and each o... |
507e3f93-6f0d-4939-a722-6815a5c5a9a9 | But in order to institute a fair comparison between one district and another, it is necessary to further correct the death-rate for sex and age distribution, for it is obvious that a population containing a large number of young persons between the ages of 5 and 30, when the deathrate is very low, should have a lower d... |
e9fa2e44-680a-4ed4-88df-0eb38e8139bd | The following table shows the nett and corrected death-rates of Woolwich, compared with London and the adjoining Boroughs:— Nett Corrected. England and Wales 14.7 14.7 76 Large Towns 14.9 15.8 London 13.8 14.5 Greenwich 12.6 12.9 19 Nett. Corrected. Lewisham 11.0 11.4 West Ham 13.9 ... East Ham 9.9 ... Erith 8.3 ... W... |
45c82a52-1d2d-4365-99bc-6602f9bc791a | Eltham had a lower rate in 1902 and 1903, and an equal rate in 1905. In Plumstead there has been a progressive improvement. In Woolwich and Eltham Parishes the live years 1896-1900 had a higher rate than the previous five years, but the decline in death-rate since 1901 has been much more marked than in Plumstead. Avera... |
64cb8f57-5268-4114-86e3-ea7402e915c6 | 1906 1907 1908 Woolwich Borough .. 17.2 16.9 13.9 13.1 12.5 11.6 Woolwich Parish *20.4 19.3 20.1 16.5 15.5 14.6 14.0 Plumstead ,, 16.4 16.0 15.1 12.9 12.2 11.9 10.8 Eltham ,, .. 13.0 14.6 10.2 10.2 10.0 9.7 London ,, 20.0 19.8 18.5 16.1 15.1 14.6 13.8 *Three years—1888, 1889 and 1890. 14. The death-rate among males was... |
000975f9-97bc-4e80-b0c2-922923d6ab3e | In 1906 the numbers were 14.7 and 13.6 respectively, and in 1907, 13.3 and 14.3. These rates are b 2 20 estimated on the numbers of the two sexes found at the Census of 1901. The relative proportion of the sexes has, not improbably, been recently much modified by emigration of males. 15. Tables VI. and VII., kindly sup... |
a10f1d58-00f1-4c9f-90e6-1d8e6b196e33 | Such a rate in 1908 would have meant the death of 1,966 persons instead of the 1,487 who actually died. There was thus a saving of 479 lives in 1908. But this is not the whole of the benefit conferred by a reduced death-rate, for each of the 479 lives saved means ten others who have escaped a weakening illness, or have... |
6f6ceb98-4117-412e-b512-95cbcb144569 | 21 The following table gives the infantile mortality in the Borough during the past seven years, compared with the neighbouring Boroughs, London, and England:— 1901-5. 1906. 1907. 1908. Lewisham 112 113 90 86 Greenwich 137 119 100 120 West Ham 158 149 131 128 East Ham 131 127 108 104 Erith 112 85 88 80 London 138 132 1... |
8e6f8bb2-aced-457a-9974-a40fff8945a4 | 1886 1891 1896 1901 1906 1907 1908 1890 1895 1900 1905 Woolwich Parish *151 157 170 134 139 114 111 Plumstead ,, 121 120 132 113 97 108 88 Eltham ,, .. 163 160 97 94 140 75 Woolwich Borough ... 140 146 118 111 113 95 *1888, 1889, and 1890. Woolwich and Plumstead Parishes had the lowest rate yet recorded, Eltham had a l... |
8805fd62-da77-4ff4-b4ef-0b9f09984317 | under one week old. 72 deaths were from premature birth compared with 65, 75, and 61, in the three preceding years, and of the remainder, 27 (47 in 1907) were attributed to Atrophy, Debility, and Marasmus, indefinite terms applied to deaths from immaturity, congenital debility, and other causes. The number of deaths un... |
716a5f12-58d3-432c-ada4-eadcfcc3ecf9 | Compared with 1907, the past year had, among infants, fewer deaths from measles, premature birth, and wasting diseases, bronchitis, pneumonia, and overlying; and more from diarrhœal diseases. The decrease of deaths from bronchitis and pneumonia is attributable to decrease of measles, Deaths from overlying were 5 compar... |
c346a42a-bd11-499e-b5b0-f98f541c16da | Zymotic death-rate—The number of deaths from the seven principal zymotic diseases was 117, giving a death-rate of 0.92, compared with 1.0, 1.49, and 1.34, in the three preceding years. The following table gives the zymotic death-rate in each parish during the past 8 years:— Average, 1901-5. 1906. 1907. 1908. Woolwich 1... |
13d854a9-63fe-4337-9bb0-45bc66d52822 | The following table gives particulars as to the cause of death:— 1. Natural causes 51 2. Accidental causes— Burns 5 Drowning 8 Falls 9 Fractures 4 Bun over 2 Suffocation, overlying 5 Other accidental causes 16 — 49 3. Homicidal causes — Suicide 15 Murder and Manslaughter nil — 15 115 24 The "Natural Causes" were 63 in ... |
de2a2614-1aba-4a8c-94db-2f2ab5cd5141 | Deaths in Public Institutions.—Table I. shows the actual number of deaths occurring in Public Institutions in the Borough, viz., 289, compared with 272, 261, 313, 293, and 296, in the five preceding years. Table Ia. shows the Institutions, inside and outside the Borough, receiving sick and infirm persons belonging to t... |
60f6519e-0d63-4183-a835-8708f5341413 | Atkins—gives particulars as to the vaccination of children born in Woolwich, Plumstead and Eltham Parishes in 1907:— Births 3333 Vaccinated 2553 Insusceptible 9 Conscientious objections 257 Died unvaccinated 261 25 Medical postponements 25 Removed 53 Not found and unaccounted for 175 29. The following have been the num... |
a80535a3-3383-4bca-813d-340f359918e7 | There were 10 deaths from Measles, giving a rate of 0.08, compared with 0.10, 0.24, and 0.54 in the three preceding years. The rate in London County was 031, compared with 0.38 in 1907. 31. Of the 10 who-died from Measles, all were under 5 years of age; four were males and six females; five were in Woolwich Parish, two... |
5f7265a2-c1ae-480a-a3f2-b41d1efcabd0 | The following table gives the number of deaths and death rates from Measles for the past three years, and three preceding quinquennia, in each parish (as far as known), and the death rate in London:— 26 Year. Woolwich. Plumstead Eltham. The Borough. London. No. Bate. No. Rate. No. Rate. No. Rate. Rate. |
8c751a63-d822-4f25-94cb-de8140923207 | 1891-5 (average) 20 0.49 29 0.51 Not recorded 49 0.51 0.59 1896.1900 (average) 84 0.81 36 0.57 Not recorded 70 0.67 0.57 1901.1905 (average) 9 0.22 15 0.22 1 013 26 0.21 0.44 1906 7 0.18 21 0.28 .. 28 0.24 0.40 1907 35 0.87 28 0.37 7 0 55 70 0.54 0.38 1908 5 0.13 2 0.03 3 0.23 10 0.08 0.31 34. Last year Measles was at ... |
f13c3074-e8b2-4f31-a450-0991c9aa1e05 | Not only was the number of cases much below the average, but, as often occurs, the mortality of the disease was exceptionally low. The schools principally affected were those at Eltham, the Slade, Bostall Lane, and Vicarage Road, in the beginning of the year; and Wood Street and St. Thomas's in the autumn. Dr. Kerr clo... |
c982bafd-06b3-489f-9795-ff305e00fb0f | 27 174 cases were notified by school-teachers, compared with 598 in 1907. 18 of the deaths occurred in the first quarter of the year. There can be little doubt that the mortality from this disease might be diminished by instructing parents, through leaflets and health-visitors, as to the hygienic treatment of the cases... |
74423594-903f-4641-98e5-1ba3dc5ef3db | The following table shows the case-rates of Scarlet Fever in the Borough and each Parish during 1901.5 and the past three years, compared with London:— Average, 1901-5. 1906. 1907. 1908. Borough 3.15 4.15 7.91 4.67 Woolwich Parish 2.99 3.83 6.10 3.85 Plumstead 3.24 4.22 8.56 5.22 Eltham 3.21 4.71 9.65 3.94 London Count... |
d4d2cedf-43a4-4916-876e-a299585cb427 | There were nine deaths, giving a death-rate of 0.07 per 1000 population, compared with an average of 0.08 in the five preceding years, and 0.19 in the ten years 1891-1900. The death-rate in London was 0.11. The case mortality (proportion of deaths per cent of notifications), 1.5, was again very low. It appears from the... |
c5f1a50a-c945-442a-8fa5-6cde7217c451 | 21 cases, of 3.5 per cent, were reported, after observation at hospital, not to be scarlet fever. 41. Return Cases—There were 38 cases in which infection was attributed to a patient recently returned from hospital, compared with 18, 14, 13, and 30, in the four preceding years. The interval between return of the infecti... |
11c63925-fea1-4ea7-b51f-410f08f00f23 | Of course, it by no means follows that, because a case of scarlet fever occurs shortly after contact with a returned case of that disease, therefore the returned case was necessarily the source of infection. It may only have been a coincidence. Out of a large number 29 of cases there are sure to be a certain number of ... |
cff1e2d6-c6ea-4f40-af32-be180c38e4a6 | "Was well on leaving hospital but the running recurred the day after reaching home. (2). B.C. returned well, but had purulent rhinorrhœa 24 days after. Three days after this began her mother sickened with scarlet fever. (3). D.E. had a cold just after coming home. (4). F.G. began with rhinorrhoea three days after disch... |
48381486-0b14-48be-990d-0be64a05cc8e | The Hospital Superintendents forward the names of any children discharged while still suffering from rhinorrhœa. It would be an advantage perhaps if they also forwarded the 30 names of children who had suffered from a rhinorrhœa which appeared to have ceased. It must be confessed that, so far, there has been failure to... |
f8f56053-f224-4f48-bc81-030cc8a95bdc | In 1907 home isolation was followed by two return eases and two second cases, due to failure of isolation, or two per cent. of failure. Taking the hospital return cases on one side, and the failure of home isolation and home return cases on the other side, it may be said that there were, in the two years, 4 per cent. o... |
c561ca50-63e7-49d1-8635-c67525c404c0 | In 22 cases infection was attributed to friends and neighbours, and in 32 cases to school attendance; in 3 to fellow 31 lodgers ; and in 6 to travelling or visiting hospitals. The number of mild cases undetected or concealed, which go about and attend school, is no doubt very large, and mainly accounts for the spread o... |
fcbe0997-3060-4d1f-b10f-5796e77b5c04 | This leads to children being encouraged to go to school at an age when they are unfit to leave home, and when they are more liable to succumb to infectious disease. It also indirectly leads to children attending school in an infectious state. 47. Information was obtained as to the date of calling in medical attendance ... |
7cdd1a5a-a809-4cdc-86ae-d0281e01c1b3 | Her tongue and the desquamation of the skin clearly indicated that she was suffering from Scarlet Fever, and she stated that she had had a sore throat and rash from Easter Tuesday (21st April) till the following Sunday. She returned to school a week later (May 4th). No doctor was called in because her uncle was out of ... |
68fd9f73-86be-4fd2-97f8-33c35912be49 | Since that report was written the Registrar-General's Annual Summary has been issued, and shows that the London death-rate from Scarlet Fever, during the five years 1903-7, was 0.11 per 1000; in Woolwich it was 0.08, or only about two-thirds as much as London. During the same period the London death rate from Diphtheri... |
d4bfabd5-8287-4c08-871b-af5ee38917a9 | It is quite true that it is a serious matter to have a large amount of non-fatal preventable disease which causes suffering, inconvenience, and expense; but, on the whole, notifications have been less since 1900 than in the previous ten years. In the four years 1901-4, there was a very marked diminution. The last three... |
1ff656b2-27ee-4124-ac17-96f22e620e0e | Although the number of notifications of Diphtheria has been larger in the past three years than for some five years before, I have little doubt that the actual number of cases of Diphtheria has been no greater. Many cases are now discovered by bacteriology and notified, which could not have been discovered before bacte... |
a61104f2-32ea-41b3-85e0-fbb1310ffe66 | It will be found that Boroughs with a similar population to that of Woolwich, such as East Ham, Tottenham, Leyton, and Walthamstow, also have a large porportion of notifications. I have no doubt that the former is the chief reason why the number of notified cases is larger and the number of deaths smaller in Plumstead ... |
ffee693a-ee68-4986-95cf-87e1298f1e24 | 362 cases of diphtheria were notified, compared with 273, 387 and 275, in the three preceding years. The case-rate (number of cases per thousand population) corrected for cases of mistaken diagnosis (of which 29 were noted) was 2.61. This is the highest rate since 1900, with one exception. 13 of the notified cases were... |
a65a28e5-54f1-49c9-9cff-68b86a802feb | The following table shows the case-rate in each parish (not corrected for mistaken diagnosis) in the past seven years, compared with London and the Borough:— 1901-5 1906 1907 1908 The Borough 1.71 2.80 1.83 2.61 Woolwich Parish 1.63 3.43 1.85 3.18 Plumstead ,, 1.87 2.26 2.36 2.88 Eltham ,, 1.62 6.70 1.57 1.69 Loudon 1.... |
0cc93b61-7909-40fd-beda-d40c2b216235 | The case mortality was only 5.5 per cent, compared with 7.0, 17.8, 6.6, 5.7, and 6.3, in the five preceding years, and 9.1 in London. If the diphtheria death-rate which prevailed from 1896-1900 had been in operation last year, there would have been 60 deaths from this disease last year instead of 20 the actual number. ... |
1df26ef8-521a-4e6c-8254-0057555d3cfa | The carriers were excluded from school until the diphtheria bacillus had disappeared; the cases shewing any symptoms were notified and isolated. c 2 36 The Medical Officers of the Royal Arsenal examined employees from infected houses before allowing them to return to work, and discovered several bacteriological or carr... |
57d4ec50-575c-4622-9c03-db9bcac16ef3 | In 107 cases, a probable source of infection was noted, viz., in 56, other inmates of the house were suspected to be the source; in 30, schoolmates; 14, neighbours and friends; 6, return cases; 1, a general hospital. The 6 return-cases followed 5 returned cases ; 4 of the returned cases went away for Scarlet Fever, and... |
ff2d615b-941d-4435-81b9-c6666b244057 | Thomson of the Local Government Board, and Dr. Thomas of the L.C.C., but so far without any light being thrown on the matter. One of the cases which helped to spread the disease was a girl who had a slight 37 attack; her mother could not afford medical attendance, and for fear of the attendance officer sent her to scho... |
fc1e1e4d-a9a5-4485-910c-b60e43689435 | Of the 828 swabs examined, 341 were taken from school children by myself. Of these 25 contained the true Klebs Loffler bacillus (including 9 with Klebs Loffler and Hoffman's), and 167 Hoffman's bacillus. Most of these were contacts seen about 10 days after notification of the primary case, for the purpose of giving cer... |
1bebd2ed-5111-4a4e-9df0-9ab6e0b31eb3 | Of 7 cases with purulent discharge, encrustation and soreness of the nostrils, 4 gave a positive result, 1 showed Hoffman's bacillus, and 3 were negative. 38 Positive cases with any symptoms were notified and sent to hospital, or strictly isolated; positive cases without symptoms were excluded from school and from mixi... |
67730820-8da1-4c11-9563-a676d2a9aa16 | A little more than onethird obtained medical attendance on the first day, and nearly one-third were not seen by the doctor till two days had elapsed. No doubt the chief cause of this delay is the poverty of the parents which makes them avoid calling in a doctor before they are obliged. The only practical remedy seems t... |
0bafa2c3-2fa9-4124-9ff3-481cf3379a91 | Out of 19 cases notified, 14 went to hospital. 59. There were two deaths, giving a death-rate of 0.02, which is the lowest death-rate recorded. The death-rate in London was 0.05. 39 At the present rate of diminution Enteric Fever will have practically disappeared in four years. 60. The following are the cases notified ... |
24977505-5cfa-4807-993a-338d0f2711e7 | No suspicious food had been taken by both, but the servant often had shellfish, and prepared her master's food. She probably infected his food by preparing it with hands fresh from touching shellfish. 62. Bacteriological Diagnosis.—17 samples of blood were sent to the Lister Institute to be examined for Widal's reactio... |
e7bd471f-b689-4209-8037-e029444f811d | There were, in addition, 11 deaths from enteritis and gastroenteritis, making a total of 57 deaths, or 18 per 1,000 births, due to diarrhœal diseases. 34 of the 57 were under one year of age. 40 64. The following table shows the death-rate from the above-mentioned diarrhœal diseases per 1,000 births, in each parish dur... |
8ff2ab6f-ef16-4be4-b921-82a1316c1596 | Woolwich Parish 33.2 44 19 23 Plumstead Parish 26.6 31 16 16 Eltham Parish 18.8 19 11 12 The Borough (02-5) 26.7 34 18 18 London County (04-5) 40.0 48 21 — The Council decided in the spring of 1905 to pay for voluntary notifications of the first case of Zymotic Enteritis occurring in a family during the months of July,... |
9be2f4f1-f850-4874-82ae-8a50d41c3a2d | As the result of the report, your Council resolved that voluntary notification of Zymotic Enteritis should be continued, and that the disease should be made notifiable in June and October as well as in the three summer months. Erysipelas. 65. There were 90 cases of Erysipelas notified, compared with 74, 83, 110, and 11... |
23e6a92a-c85f-4b61-b4a3-a6531281836d | One case has been notified in the Borough in each of the two years 1907-8. It seems probable that the disease is always present in London, but is not usually distinguished from other forms of meningitis. Puerperal Fever. 67. There were 6 cases of Puerperal Fever notified, compared with 5, 12, 8, and 6, in the four prec... |
819dec30-107a-4a57-9c93-0f7ace9b9e6a | Bronchitis and Pneumonia caused 228 deaths, compared with 258, 278, 255, 265, and 298, in the five preceding years. The deaths from these causes under five years were only 81, compared with 140 in 1907. Thus most of the diminution, compared with 1907, is in deaths under 5 years, and probably represents largely diminish... |
68aadaa7-e1c0-47d3-a0cb-ed5d5e4bd0e0 | The following table gives the number of deaths from each of the various forms of tuberculosis in the past eight years, and also the deaths from simple meningitis: — Average 1901.5 1906 1907 1908 Tubercular meningitis 20.0 22 19 27 Simple meningitis 22.0 15 20 14 Tuberculosis of intestines and peritoneum 13.0 14 11 13 T... |
5aaf4272-e77a-41b9-8444-0d632ded52db | The reduction in the death.rate since 1901 represents a saving of 73 lives last year. The following table gives the death.rate from phthisis in each parish during the five years 1901.5 and in 1906, 07, and 08, compared with London. The greatest reduction was in the parish of Woolwich. Average 1901.5 1906 1907 1908 No. ... |
3307329b-5ffa-4083-b1fe-67034bdc667c | Rate Woolwich Parish 89 2.15 67 1.68 52 1.30 59 1.51 Plurastead ,, 97 1.34 90 1.20 92 1.20 90 1.19 Eltham ,, 6 0.63 7 0.58 10 0.78 7 0.54 The Borough 192 1.56 164 1.29 154 1.19 156 1.23 London — 1.57 6969 1.47 6654 1.39 6419 1.32 43 72. The following table shows the death-rate from phthisis in Woolwich and Plumstead pa... |
6a787bb9-7236-492d-b3d6-04af83da52c9 | 1901-5 Woolwich 2.80 2.16 2.15 Plumstead 1.78 1.40 1.35 73. To judge of the decrease of tuberculosis it is necessary to consider carefully the figures given above for the various forms of the disease. It is seen that the number of cases of simple meningitis has considerably diminished, while that of tuberculous meningi... |
7f20634f-f14f-4988-8eba-5a864817f153 | The reduction of phthisis in the past three years, especially in Woolwich parish, is very marked. There has been but very slight reduction in tuberculosis of intestines and peritoneum; if this disease, as Dr. Koch and others think, is mainly contracted from other persons in the home suffering from phthisis, the reducti... |
887915cb-5e8c-4392-82f8-14eeef4d24aa | In 1905 there were 110 males and 75 females; in 1906, 97 males and 67 females; and in 1907, 82 males and 72 females. 75. The source of infection was attributed in 81 deaths from tuberculosis, with more or less probability, as follows:— Family or personal— Father 19 Husband 1 Mother 15 Brother 3 Sister 2 Other relatives... |
dde022cc-2fe4-48cb-baaf-5cd7e04c9433 | 13 others were notified by the District Medical Officers of the Poor Law Unions, 16 by the Medical Officers of the Eoyal Arsenal, and the remainder by clergymen, philanthropic societies, applicants for admission to Peppard Common Sanatorium, and by private medical practitioners. £8 10s. 6d. was paid during the year for... |
83ff8957-b4fb-4152-b3cb-5a0635016284 | Workshop and Office 18 Public house 12 School 1 Navy and army 1 Milk 2 Undetermined 75 78. Of the 24 adults about whom information was obtained, 2 were stated to be teetotallers, 18 temperate, and 4 intemperate. Of the houses of notified consumptives, 9 were to some extent dirty, 5 had dark rooms, 1 damp rooms, 3 were ... |
a1bacab2-37db-4247-8f78-51cee6a6ce54 | The Department and Workshops affected are as follows:— Eoyal Laboratory 4 Building Works Dept. 2 Electrical Branch 3 Torpedo Factory 1 Danger Buildings 1 Central Office 1 Royal Carriage Dept. 3 Naval Ordnance Dept. 1 Royal Gun Factory 1 Royal Dockyard 4 Army Ordnance Dept. 2 80. Bacteriological diagnosis. Sputum from 1... |
1730c7fc-e9d0-4df3-aafd-da39936f3423 | Disinfection was performed by the Public Health Department at 157 premises, compared with 142, 169 and 165, in the three preceding years. Of these, 93 were disinfected after the death of the patient, and 64 after removal to hospital, sanatorium, or other opportunity. 83. Sanatorium Treatment.— All the Council's seven b... |
462a4ee9-0500-48e6-99f6-436e781025fe | Most showed very great improvement, and were able to resume their ordinary duties. Several were kept for a time at the sanatorium after ceasing to be chargeable to the Council. Some of these earned their keep by performing light duties, and others were supported by a charitable fund. 84. The following table, recommende... |
bfaea4f9-5f48-4b47-ab89-bf295687de24 | 1909. a. b. A. b. a. b. a. b. a. b. a. B. 1903 1 1 1 .. 1 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1904 12 7 .. .. 3 6 .. 5 .. 4 .. 3 .. 3 1905 16 9 .. .. .. .. 2 12 2 9 1 5 2 2 1900 29 7 .. .. .. .. .. .. 3 26 2 20 4 16 1907 38 12 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 10 20 3 18 96 36 1 .. 4 6 2 17 5 39 13 48 9 39 Some half-dozen of those record... |
b78699aa-0ebd-4033-8750-9311b51bdf74 | Several of those not accounted for are believed 48 to be well and at work— one at Lowestoft employed in fishing, others in Canada, Australia, South Africa, &c. The above table accounts for all patients who left the sanatorium up to December 31st, 1907. Out of 96 who have left over one year, 39 are now well and at work,... |
2c5f87ba-b46d-4e08-9dd2-659c9dc1f314 | Sanatorium treatment can nearly always, in cases not advanced, improve health and lengthen life. In order for health to be fully re-established and strength maintained, the cases must be sufficiently early, and suitable conditions of life and employment found. Unfortunately the latter condition can seldom be fulfilled,... |
2b826e65-d9b7-482b-857d-21d0787d36d5 | Those who prove to be in too advanced a condition to benefit, even by prolonged treatment, at any rate have their lives lengthened, and learn how to continue the treatment at home and avoid being a source of danger to their relatives and friends, and the Medical Superintendent is able to pick out those who will best pr... |
aafb723e-4e77-4a15-bd7c-6eea61217555 | Others were admitted to Convalescent Homes, Consumption Hospitals, other Sanatoriums, or the Workhouse Infirmary, but all received instructions as to means to be taken to promote their own health and avoid infecting others. 88. Twenty-three spitting flasks were supplied at cost price (6d.), compared with 5, 14, 22, and... |
8a60b606-49fe-4593-b3ce-bd812b87df3b | The following table shews the sex and region affected of all cases of malignant disease:— D 50 Carcinoma. Males. Females Seat of Primary Disease— Head and face — 1 Mouth and tongue 6 — Pharynx, oesophagus, larynx and neck 2 1 Pleura, lung, mediastinum — 2 Stomach and pylorus 12 7 Intestines (excluding rectum) 2 5 Rectu... |
feb723ad-3239-4ece-8905-8f89c4f23666 | There were five deaths from alcoholism and 16 from cirrhosis of the liver, making a total of 21 deaths definitely attributed to alcohol, compared with 42, 27, 24, 17, and 18, in the five preceding years. In addition to these there were 346 deaths from diseases of the brain and nervous system (excluding meningitis), hea... |
11dc9b62-b8f5-48ce-942b-51b977e38d93 | Mary's Ward, have been closed under the Licensing Act, 1904. Syphilis. 93. There were 7 deaths from Syphilis, compared with 14, 14, 10, and 9, in the four preceding years. Pour of these occurred in the Workhouse Infirmary, and two in an outlying institution. Two were males, and five females; five were iufants under one... |
76cf8a31-bd97-4766-8a6d-d42e4bf846f9 | The temperature of the winter quarter of the year was nearly normal; it had six weeks with an average temperature above the normal and seven below. The same is true of the spring quarter. D 2 52 The summer quarter had three weeks above the average and ten below; its average temperature was 0.8 degree below the average.... |
b9a645a6-7a32-45f0-af6c-fc0e94d01e64 | 53 PART II. ADMINISTRATION. Water Supply. 1. Iq June, 1908, I reported, as follows: — Plumstead Well. Last year the Metropolitan Water Roard informed the Rorough Council that investigation should be made as to the unsatisfactory condition of the Plumstead "Well. The Water Examination Committee now reports that the well... |
5a865dac-ebc5-4a81-8eb7-091232e82fba | It must be remembered, however, that the importance of the presence of chlorine is due not so much to its being prejudicial in itself as to its being frequently an indication of the access of foreign matter to a water-supply. It was suggested, by an Officer of the Metropolitan Water Eoard, that the cause of the excess ... |
85c20722-ebb7-4dd5-9b1a-ec6d6cf1c11f | Further, the chlorine in the water of the well supplying Plumstead Baths, which is only half a mile from the Plumstead Well, was found to contain only 31 parts per 100,000. It is obvious, therefore, that there is no satisfaction to the people of this Borough to know that their water still contains 6 narts of chlorine p... |
19b12cff-0c5d-4370-88a3-ed7a23f99c0b | Last year the Plumstead water contained more than the average amount of ammoniacal nitrogen, albumenoid nitrogen, oxidised nitrogen and oxygen absorbed from permanganate, and presumably this condition is still maintained. I am decidedly of opinion that the Borough Council should not be satisfied with the condition of t... |
55ce5fe0-735e-4a46-9db3-d7cfa5944d65 | In these pumping provides a supply from 6 a.m. to 1 or 2 p.m., and from 4 to 6 p.m. 2. Water Supply in Tenement Houses. An additional tap and sink were supplied on at least one upper floor of eighteen tenement houses, under the Public Health (London) Act, Sec. 48, previously to the coming into force of the London Count... |
10a5081d-dcfb-4fce-a9fc-416fe366c841 | At 40 houses the supply was found insufficient or temporarily cut off. Food and Drugs act. 4. 521 samples were submitted to the Public Analyst, and 13 or 2.5 per cent, were found to be adulterated, compared with 5.7, 8.4, 7.4, 9.3 and 4.3, in the five preceding years. The very small percentage of adulterations is remar... |
81df1c41-67f6-42fc-81ff-240f70c5f378 | Six of these, or 1.7 per cent, were adulterated, compared with 6.1, 9.3, 6.5, 8.7, and 4.8, in the five preceding years. 83 samples were bought as butter, and four were found to be adulterated. Table XVIII. shews the other articles analysed. Two samples of coffee and one of camphorated oil were adulterated ; the remain... |
8787bdc2-edd6-4209-bf3b-0a9d6d6df572 | ; and in 1907, 2 5 per cent. 10. A record is now kept of all analyses of milk made by the Public Analyst. The average percentage of fat in all unadulterated samples taken last year was the same as in 1907, viz., 3.6, and of non-fatty solids 8.8. From 9 to 18 samples were taken in 1907 of the milk supplied by each of si... |
7bc817a8-42b5-4e67-b940-de4ca92bb18d | On the 1st May I reported as follows :— 57 The Local Government Board has called attention to the large proportion which the number of dairy-produce samples, taken in this Borough, bears to the number of samples of other articles of food and drugs, and enquires the reason for this. In the first place I have to point ou... |
f2ccc618-e20a-4066-a032-c358474b00e9 | Four were samples of brandy, but notices were posted in the houses where they were bought stating that the brandy was not guaranteed to be wholly distilled from grape spirit. One was a sample of coffee which had a wrapper on which it was described to contain a mixture of coffee and cbicory. On the other hand, of the sa... |
55bd7ab5-bdde-4e07-ae3c-88aa8978e749 | It is further to be noted that the adulterations which are met with of articles other than dairy produce rarely, if ever, are such as to injuriously affect health. The adulterations of spirits which have been met with recently, although a fraud on the purchaser, are by no means prejudicial to health. It is to be regret... |
dc72a890-021e-4a33-8c8c-52bc849ae400 | Undoubtedly it is the duty of the Public Health Department, under the Food and Drugs Act, to protect the purchaser independently of considerations of health, and the above remarks are made, not as an excuse for not putting in force the Act as regards articles such as spirits, coffee, etc., but as a reason why, the numb... |
e8c2ef06-8a45-4a5b-9ef5-45acadb8b819 | In this Borough, in which a very large proportion of the population consists of children, milk and butter form two of the most important articles of diet, and the adulteration of milk very seriously interferes with health. It is, therefore, obviously important that a large number of samples of milk should be taken, It ... |
474afb07-d685-4601-b833-bcf48aa8d271 | Inspectors Little, Tedham, and Powell, made special inspections in rotation. There were 2 seizures and 77 surrenders. The seizures were four pieces of beef, weighing 59 lbs., on October 1st, at the Workhouse, and one piece weighing 7 lbs. These were condemned by a magistrate and destroyed. Of the surrenders, 3 were tub... |
8569617f-f9e3-4c2d-96b1-d4e15dd30ef3 | On January 1st, 1908, there were 143 milkshops on the Register; 31 were added and 40 removed during the year, leaving 134 on the Register at the close of 1908. There were 308 inspections made. Owing to the steps taken by the Health Department, requiring persons not to sell milk in unsuitable general shops, the number o... |
317839c7-ee8a-448c-9628-14ed2c9492bd | These were all inspected 4 times, and 12 notices were served for dirty conditions, &c. There were no prosecutions. Slaughterhouses. 15. There are 11 slaughterhouses on the register, 56 inspections were made, and 4 notices served and complied with. Nuisances. (See Table XV.a.) 16. 399 complaints of sanitary defects were... |
37516b3c-ba40-459d-a542-2419318c0e21 | Sixteen defective combined drains were investigated and reported on by the Chief Sanitary Inspector, compared with 26, 25 and 29 in the three preceding years. These drains affected 128 houses. 61 371 private drains, found choked and defective, were examined, cleared and relaid, compared with 590, 557, and 451, in the t... |
7c9eb36e-c860-4ef3-b921-4029521be54c | At a conference of representatives of Deptford, Greenwich, Lewisham and Woolwich Borough Councils, and certain local bodies, it was decided to send 6 delegates to the Main Drainage Committee of the London County Council to call their attention to the various nuisances caused by the road level ventilators on the new out... |
c9bcebc7-9de6-4ad5-bf15-9b327557a925 | As there is no agreement as to the satisfaction given by any special forms of ventilators, this is the only practical step which could be asked of the L.C.C. It was, however, suggested that they should make experiments in particular methods of ventilation, but this the Committee did not seem inclined to undertake. The ... |
93003e6e-08b5-4cae-bdd6-6bba6d966693 | The question as to the responsibility for supervision of reconstructed drains has been for years occasionally the cause of some difficulty between the Public Health and Works Departments. Certain occurrences at Eltham led to the necessity of reconsidering the understanding between the two departments, and the By-laws o... |
ee19ee79-4c77-4cb7-9cc0-a22d41585c27 | 117 & 118 be rescinded, and the following new By-law and Standing Orders substituted therefor- By-law.—The following matters shall be dealt with by the Works Committee:— (2) The construction and the supervision of the construction of all new sewers, new drains and drainage apparatus, the maintenance, repair, and cleans... |
69159d68-c186-48bf-ba32-dc64918db6b0 | The Medical Officer of Health shall deal with and hereafter be responsible for the repair and reconstruction of drains not involving an entirely new system of drainage as to which notices are served by an Officer of the Pubic Health Department, under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, or the Metropolis Management Ac... |
497b7531-974b-4132-b451-d33b2c1e4c8e | As the matters contained in it are only a question of the interpretation of existing by-laws and standing orders, it was agreed between the Borough Engineer and myself that in future the question of responsibility for the supervision of any drainage work should be determined according to the recommendation above given.... |
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