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Hampstead 1910
Report for the year 1910 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Detailed information concerning small-pox, scarlet fever,diphtheria, and fever will be found under the heading of Notifiable Infectious Diseases, on pages 42-49, but particulars concerning measles, whooping cough, and diarrhoea, to which notification does not apply, are given here :—
| Year. | Seven Principal Epidemic Diseases.Death-rate per 1000 of the population. | Measles.Death-rate per 1000 of the population. | Whooping Cough.Death-rate per 1000 of the population. | Diarrhoea.Death-rate per 1000 of the population. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 0-77 | 0-12 | 0-29 | 0-04 |
| 1902 | C'69 | 0-17 | 0-11 | 0-04 |
| 1903 | 0-49 | 0-09 | 0.18 | 0-05 |
| 1904 | 0'55 | 0-17 | 0-09 | 0-15 |
| 1905 | 0-43 | 0 09 | 0-11 | 0-02 |
| 1900 | 0-55 | 011 | 0-02 | 0-21 |
| 1907 | 0-45 | 0-12 | 0-13 | 0-05 |
| 1908 | 0-40 | 0-04 | 0-05 | 0-12 |
| 1909 | 0-51 | 012 | 0-19 | 0-03 |
| 1910 | 0-47 | 0-15 | 011 | 0-08 |
Measles.
Fourteen deaths were recorded from this disease, as compared with
11 in 1909.
The mortality Was (Ho per 1000 population, the mortality in 1909
being 0*12.
Measles is now included amongst the dangerous infectious diseases,
to which Sections 60-0-3, 68-70, and 72-74 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, apply. These sections extend the provisions
relating to isolation and disinfection to measles, but they do not make
the disease compulsorily notifiable.