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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
Hammersmith 1914
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1914
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SUMMER DIARRHŒA.
The number of deaths from diarrhœa was 74, being
3 less than in the previous year. Fifty-seven were
under 1 year of age.
During the year leaflets dealing with precautions
which should be taken for the prevention of summer
diarrhœa were sent to premises where births had
occurred during the previous twelve months. The
Lady Health Visitor also delivered leaflets where births
had occurred during the year of this Report.
DANGER FROM FLIES.
During the year, illustrated leaflets were distributed,
pointing out the danger from flies, and showing how
disease was spread by their carrying filth and germs
from ashpits, privies, manure heaps, decaying animal
and vegetable refuse, to food, etc.
Supplies of leaflets were sent to the Registrars of
Births and Deaths, who kindly offered to hand them
to parents registering the births of their children.
TABULAR STATEMENT—ZYMOTIC DISEASES. The following table shows the number of cases that were reported as due to the undermentioned 20 zymotic diseases during the years 1905 to 1914.
| Year. | Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria of Diphtheritic Croup. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Simple continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | English Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Plague. | Chicken-pox.* | Measles * | Whooping Cough.* | Cerebro-spinal Fever. | Anthrax. | Glanders. | Hydrophobia. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Acute Polio-myelitis. | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905 | 0 | 360 | 237 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 125 | 0 | 219 | 286 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1698 | ||
| 1906 | 0 | 439 | 270 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 125 | 0 | 68 | 627 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1629 | ||
| 1907 | 577 | 207 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 198 | 538 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1984 | ||||||
| 1908 | 0 | 199 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 161 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1113 | ||||||
| 1909 | 380 | 188 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 140 | 281 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1943 | ||||||||
| 1910 | 0 | 340 | 161 | 0 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 63 | 0 | 228 | 484 | 200 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521 |
| 1911 | 0 | 236 | 195 | 1 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 0 | 304 | 250 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1689 | |||
| 1912 | 0 | 335 | 177 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 0 | 363 | 487 | 208 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 1708 | |
| 1913 | 0 | 533 | 141 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 98 | 0 | 171 | 700 | 371 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 2060 | |
| 1914 | 0 | 954 | 157 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 0 | 235 | 491 | 232 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 2225 | ||
| Av'rge in last 10 yrs. | 0 | 454 | 193 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 93 | 0 | 204 | 531 | 238 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1757 |
* Not a notifiable disease.