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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hampstead 1908
Report for the year 1908 of the Medical Officer of Health
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The number of fatal cases was 4 or 16.7 per cent. of the cases notified.
The death-rate per 1000 population was 0.04; 14 patients, or
58 per cent. of the total cases notified, were removed to hospital.
The sanitary condition of each house in which a case of
Enteric Fever occurred was investigated and the following defects
were discovered:—
Drains defective 3
Soil pipes defective 2
Water supply defective 2
Other defects 4
The following table shows the number of cases occurring each month in the various wards:—
| Month. | WARDS. | Totals. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 1 (Town) | No. 2 (Belsize) | No. 3 (Adelaide) | No. 4 (Central) | No. 5 (West End) | No. 6 (Kilburn) | No. 7 (Priory) | ||
| January | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| February | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| March | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| April | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 |
| May | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| June | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 4 |
| July | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 3 |
| August | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 3 |
| September | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 |
| October | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| November | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| December | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | 5 |
| Totals | 6 | 4 | 6 | - | 6 | 1 | 1 | 24 |