[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council 1895].

  • London County Council (London, England). County of London.
Date:
[1896?]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council 1895]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    17 Sanitary district. Four weeks ended Jan. 26. Feb. 23. Mar. 23. Apr. 20. May 18. June 15. July 13. Aug. 10. Sept. 7. Oct. 5. Nov. 2. Nov. 30. Dec. 28. Brought forward 21 58 22 17 17 5 34 201 139 61 13 16 10 St. Saviour, Southwark ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 2 ... ... ... 1 St. George Southwark ... ... 1 ... ... ... 11 24 9 ... ... 2 1 Newington ... 1 ... ... ... 1 3 7 1 1 2 ... 4 St. Olave ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 ... ... ... ... ... ... Bermondsey ... ... ... 1 ... ... 4 ... 3 ... ... ... ... Rotherhithe 1 ... 7 7 10 ... 1 1 8 l 1 ... 1 Lambeth ... ... 1 5 3 9 5 8 10 8 2 1 2 Battersea 5 ... 1 ... ... ... 1 3 2 8 2 ... ... Wandsworth ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 6 3 3 1 ... Camberwell ... 2 1 ... ... 1 19 11 20 14 11 7 ... Greenwich 3 1 8 1 1 3 ... ... 5 1 3 5 11 Lewisham ... 1 ... ... ... ... ... 1 ... ... ... ... ... Woolwich ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 ... ... ... ... ... ... Lee ... ... ... ... 4 ... ... ... ... ... 1 ... ... Plumstead ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 3 8 3 2 ... ... Port of London 1 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 Total 31 63 41 31 35 19 82 262 213 100 40 32 31 The reports of the medical officers of health of the several sanitary districts supply the following more detailed information— Paddington—All the cases of smallpox occurring in the district were those of adults who had not been vaccinated since infancy. Three of these cases are referred to as con nected cases. One case was that of a patient who had sickened in Westminster; the origin of this case was not discovered. Another patient had been associated with a child who had been thought to be suffering from chicken-pox. The source of infection of the other cases was not discovered. Kensington—Of the cases of smallpox notified, six were removed to hospital. Hammersmith—No information as to the vaccination of one case of smallpox notified could be obtained, the remainder had been vaccinated in infancy but not since. Fulham—Two cases of smallpox were reported. In one case the disease was contracted in Shoreditch. The source of infection of the second case could not be discovered. Westminster—Of six cases of smallpox notified, one occurred in a private house and five in common lodging-houses. One of the latter had slept in five different places since he observed the rash. All the cases were removed to hospital. In September, notice was received from the medical officer of health of Battersea of a girl who had developed smallpox in that district and had been removed to hospital. She had been employed in dressmaking in a factory in Westminster. Inquiry showed that a woman, three of whose children had been removed to the smallpox hospital, had been working in the same room as the patient. Marylebone—This district had suffered from a considerable prevalence of smallpox for the chief part in July and August of 1894, and continuing in less degree to the end of the year, ten cases being notified in the month of December. The monthly report of the medical officer of health for January, 1895, gives account of a recrudescence of the disease in that month, due to the retention in a house occupied by five families of a case of smallpox which was not recognised until just before the death of the patient after nine days'illness. During the nine days of her illness, each of the five families had received a large number of visitors, and a fortnight after the death notifications came in from some 20 cases, nearly all of whom had been in or connected with the house in question. The medical officer in his report for the month of February states, There have been 39 cases of smallpox during the month, all of which have been removed to hospital. Five of the cases were fatal; all the five were young unvaccinated children. Hampstead— Two cases of smallpox occurred in this district. One patient contracted the disease in Bermondsey, the other, a patient in the North London Consumption Hospital, had been admitted from a lodging-house in the east of London, from which a porter suffering from smallpox had been removed. Islington—Twenty-five persons were certified to be suffering from smallpox, four of whom, after removal to hospital, were returned to their home on the ground that their malady was not this disease. The medical officer of health states that the very greatest efforts were made in every instance to have the cases speedily removed to hospital, as he had very great fears as to the consequences in this district if the disease should obtain a hold, owing to the grave neglect of vaccination by the guardians. Of the 21 cases of smallpox, 14 were vaccinated, 6 unvaccinated, and the condition as to vaccination of one was uncertain. [3]