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Hammersmith 1903

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1903

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Table: TABLE VI.CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1903.Borough of Hammersmith.

TABLE VI.

CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1903.

Borough of Hammersmith.

Notifiable Disease.Cases Notified in Whole District.Total Cases Notified in Each Locality.No. of Cases removed to Hospital from Each Locality.
At all Ages.At Agest—Years.North.Centre.South.West London Hospital.Nazareth House.Hammersmith Infirmary.North.Centre.South.West London Hospital.Nazareth House.Hammersmith' Infirmary.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 65.65 and upwards.
Small-pox6000231222000222000
Cholera0000000000000000000
Diphtheria157458691213176631800059519000
Membranous croup3421000210000000000
Erysipelas1084310136513543715l10000000
Scarlet Fever31421001643315014896680021257950002
Typhus fever0000000000000000000
Enteric fever5803111727025201210018104000
Relapsing fever0000000000000000000
Continued fever1000010100000000000
Puerperal fever6000330420000000000
Plague0000000000000000000
*Chicken-pox5031100311000000000
‡ Phthisis1430210131126495836000000000
Totals80110171266942392136428015221220414265002

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TABLE VI.
The following table lias been prepared by ine under
an instsuction of the Local Government Board.
Notes. —The localities adopted for this table should be the same as those in Tables II. and IV.
State in space below the name of the isolation hospital, if any, to which residents in the district, suffering from infectious disease, are usually
sent. Mark (H) the locality in which it is situated, or if not within the district, state where it is situated, and in what district Mark
(W) the locality in which a workhouse is situated.
* Chicken-pox ceased to be notifiable on January 7th.
† These age columns for notification should be filled up in all cases where the Medical Officer of Health, by inquiry or otherwise, has
obtained the necessary information.
‡Voluntarily notifiable since April 7th, 1902.
This space may be used for other disease the notification (compulsory or voluntary) of which is in force in the district.
Isolation Hospital.—Western District Hospital at Fulham, and occasionally other Fever Hospitals under the Metropolitan Asylums Board,
and exceptionally the London Fever Hospital, also the Small-pox Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.