[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge].

  • Penge (Kent, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
[1905?]
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    8 DISINFECTION. The disinfection has been carried out on the same lines as last year, but we shall be greatly relieved when the work is under our own control. As a result of the recommendation given last year, I am pleased to report that we have disinfected after several cases of Phthisis and Cancer, and we are anxious that it should be generally known that disinfection after these diseases will be gratuitously carried out by my department, and that in all cases of infectious disease disinfectants can be obtained on application. One new departure has been the undertaking by our own official of the disinfecting of all drains in houses where enteric fever has arisen. INQUESTS. There have been 19 Inquests during the year, and were as follows:— Cause of death. Males. Females. Total. Natural causes 6 5 11 Accidental causes 5 — 5 Suicides 1 2 3 12 7 19 HOUSE-TO-MOUSE INSPECTION. The House-to-house inspection is still progressing, and I am perfectly satisfied with the thoroughness with which it is carried out. Permanent records are kept, and I hope as time goes on every house in the district will be examined and its sanitary condition recorded.