Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1909.

  • Deptford (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1910]
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1909. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    18/98 (page 10)
    10 The rate of mortality was 0.55, compared with 0.28, 0.47 and 0.61 for the three preceding years. The rate of mortality for England and Wales was 0.35, for the 76 great towns 0.48, for the 143 smaller towns 0.33, and for the Metropolis as a whole 0.48. WHOOPING COUGH. This disease was the cause of 47 deaths, compared with 25, 35 and 61 for the three preceding years. The death-rate per 1,000 persons living was 0.41, as compared with 0.21, 0.30 and 0.52 for the three preceding years. The rate of mortality for England and Wales was 0.20, for the 76 great towns 0.24, for the 143 smaller towns 0.17, and for the County of London 0.26. North Deptford had 18 deaths, South Deptford 4, and Central Deptford 25. TUBERCULOSIS. The Local Government Board order, which came into force on January 1st, 1909, rendered compulsory the notification of cases of . Pulmonary Tuberculosis by the Medical Officer of a Poor Law Institution, and by the District Medical Officer in the case of any poor person he is attending, according to his agreement with the Board of Guardians. The notifications are to be made to the Medical Officer of Health within forty-eight hours after the symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis are first recognised. The Superintending Officer of a Poor Law Institution is required to post to the Medical Officer of Health a notification of the actual, or intended, place of destination of any person leaving the institution with respect of whom notification has been made, and the same obligation is laid upon the Relieving Officer in the case of persons not in an institution who may change their address. The Order is not to authorise anyone to put into force any enactment which renders the person notified or any other person liable to a penalty or subjects him to any restriction, prohibition or disability affecting him or his employment, occupation, means of livelihood, or residence, on the ground of his suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis. The number of notifications received during the year was 538 relating to 172 cases. Table 3 shows there were 81 in North Deptford, 24 in South Deptford and 67 in Central Deptford. C 2