Report of the health of Tottenham UDC for the year 1906.

  • Tottenham (London, England). Local Board of Health.
Date:
[1907]
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Credit: Report of the health of Tottenham UDC for the year 1906. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PHTHISIS. wg J fn wg P; S? June. r* it r-* < oT C/2 Oct. Nov. Dec. Total. Harringay... ... ... 2 i 1 ... 2 ... ... ... ... 2 ... ... 8 West Green ... 1 ... ... 1 ... 1 • • ... 2 ... ... 1 6 St. Ann’s ... ... ... 2 3 2 1 • » • ... 1 • • ... 2 11 High Cross ... i 1 5 2 ] 1 . . . 3 ... ... 3 17 Middle ... 2 ... 4 2 ... ... 3 2 ... 1 4 18 Lower ... ... ... 1 ... 1 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 15 It is curious that while with all the money lavished upon the isolation and general treatment of Scarlet Fever during the past twenty years its incidence and mortality would appear to have been very little affected, yet municipalities would seem for the most part to be either unready or unwilling to incur expense with regard to Consumption (and other tubercular diseases) which are so essentially amenable to preventive treatment. All Sanitary Authorities should co-operate in a great national attempt to check the course of this disease, and if such universal co-operation be obtained it is absolutely certain that the necessary expense entailed will be more usefully and properly incurred than has been the case regarding any of the diseases on which hundreds of thousands of pounds are now being annually spent in this country. The deaths from Phthisis occur at the period when life is most precious in the family circle, as well as of the most pecuniary and general value to the State ; moreover, it should be remembered that a very large proportion of the inhabitants of Workhouses dying of Consumption have been reduced to poverty chiefly through having contracted this disease. It is pitiable to see, as I have seen, the down grade sequence of events in a family when its head has been incapacitated for work by this fell cause ; the wages are no longer coming in and his Friendly Society allowance