Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1911 of the Medical Officer of Health
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TABLE II.
notifiable disease. | Number of cases notified. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward. | Total Cases removed to Hospital. | ||||||||||||||
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At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | Ward No. 1 (Town). | Ward No. 2 (Belsize). | Ward No 3 (Adelaide). | Ward No. 4 (Central). | Ward No. 5 (West End). | Ward No. 6 (Kilburn). | Ward No. 7 (Priory). | |||||||||
Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | |||||||||||
Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 141 | .. | 39 | 73 | 15 | 13 | 1 | .. | 50 | 21 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 29 | 9 | 108 | |
Erysipelas | 49 | .. | 2 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 18 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 20 | 3 | 6 | ||
Scarlet Fever | 125 | .. | 27 | 65 | 15 | 17 | .. | 1 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 25 | 12 | 93 | ||
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Enteric Fever | 13 | .. | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | .. | .. | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | |
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Puerperal Fever | 6 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Phthisis | Under Tuberculosis Regulations, 1908 | 46 | .. | 1 | 9 | 7 | 21 | 8 | .. | 14 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 4 | 46 | |
Under Tuberculosis Regulations, 1911 | 67 | .. | .. | 18 | 39 | 6 | .. | 13 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 5 | 39 | ||
Others (Voluntary System) | 11 | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 10 | .. | 2 | |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 5 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 5 | .. | .. | |
Polio-Myelitis | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | |
Chicken-pox | 58 | .. | 17 | 33 | 7 | 1 | .. | .. | 8 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 10 | .. | |
Totals | 527 | 6 | 90 | 195 | 79 | 115 | 37 | 5 | 106 | 105 | 32 | 38 | 59 | 142 | 45 | 309 |
Isolation Hospitals are provided by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and residents of Hampstead suffering from infectious disease are usually
sent to the North-Western Hospital, which is within the Borough, and is situate at Lawn Road, in No. 2 (Belsize) Ward.