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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 1909
Report for the year 1909 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.
The number of cases notified in 1909 was 33, as compared with
55 in 1908, the attack-rate, or number of cases notified per 1000
population, being 0.35. The number of fatal cases was 5, or 15.1 per
cent. of the cases notified. The death-rate per 1000 population was
0.05; 16 patients, or 48 per cent. of the total cases notified, were
removed to hospital.
A thorough examination was made of the sanitary condition of
every house in which a case of diphtheria occurred, and the following
defects were discovered:—
Drains defective 13
Soil pipes defective 4
Water supplies defective 5
Other defects 14
The following table shows the number of cases occurring each month in the various wards:—
| Month. | WARDS. | Totals. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. l (Town). | No. 2 (Belsize). | No. 3 (Adelaide). | No. 4 (Central). | No. 5 (West End) | No, 6 (Kilburn). | No. 7 (Priory). | ||
| January | — | l | — | l | l | — | — | 3 |
| February | — | — | 2 | l | — | — | 1 | 4 |
| March | 1 | l | — | l | _ | — | 3 | |
| April | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | 2 |
| May | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| June | 1 | ___ | — | — | 1 | — | — | 2 |
| July | — | l | — | — | — | — | 1 | 2 |
| August | 1 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | 3 |
| September | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 5 |
| October | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| November | — | 1 | — | l | — | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| December | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Totals | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 33 |