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Hampstead 1918
Report for the year 1918 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Section C.
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER ACUTE
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Notifiable Infectious Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis).
The list of Infectious Diseases notifiable in London during 1918, was as follows:—
| Small-pox | Typhus Fever | |
| Cholera | Relapsing Fever | |
| Diphtheria | Continued Fever | |
| Membranous Croup | Puerperal Fever | |
| Erysipelas | Anthrax | Occuring in Man |
| Scarlet Fever | Hydrophobia | |
| Epidemic Cerebro-spinal | Glanders | |
| Meningitis | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | |
| Plague | Measles | |
| Polio-Myelitis (Acute) | German Measles | |
| Typhoid or Enteric Fever | ||
Bacteriological Work.
The following is a summary of the Bacteriological work per-formed by the Lister Institute:—
| Positive. | Negative. | Total. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria | 41 | 169 | |
| Enteric Fever | — | 1 | 1 |
Cases of Infectious Disease occurring in each month during 1918.
| DISEASE. | MONTHS. | Totals. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January. | February. | March. | April. | May. | June. | July. | August. | September. | October. | November. | December. | ||
| Diphtheria and Mem-branous Croup | 13 | 15 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 109 |
| Erysipelas | 2 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 28 |
| Scarlet Fever | 10 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 51 |
| Enteric Fever | 1 | _ | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 12 |
| Polio-Myelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neona-torum | - | 8 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 5 |
| Epidemic Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | _ | - | 1 | - | – | _ | _ | _ | _ | 1 | _ | _ | 2 |
| Measles | 56 | 94 | 95 | 45 | 31 | 15 | 43 | 17 | 11 | 20 | 17 | 16 | 460 |
| German Measles | 10 | 9 | 23 | 19 | 28 | 7 | 5 | 1 | — | 4 | 2 | 6 | 114 |
| Totals | 92 | 127 | 137 | 87 | 72 | 39 | 63 | 30 | 23 | 44 | 33 | 35 | 782 |