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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 1916
Report for the year 1916 of the Medical Officer of Health
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TABLE II.
| Notifiable Disease. | At all Ages. | Under 1. . | 1 & under 5. | 5 & under 15 | 15 & under 25 | 25 & under 45 | 45 & under 65 | 65 and upwards. | 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). | Total Cases removed to Hospital. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |
| Cholera, Plague | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ||
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 98 | ... | 24 | 42 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 21 | 25 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 6 | 76 |
| Erysipelas | 40 | 1 | ... | 4 | 2 | 11 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 4 | 7 |
| Scarlet Fever | 133 | ... | 24 | 76 | 25 | 7 | 1 | ... | 12 | 30 | 13 | 7 | 18 | 47 | 8 | 1 18 |
| Typhus Fever | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |||||
| Enteric Fever | 6 | ... | ... | 2 | 1 | 2 | ... | ... | 2 | 1 | 2 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 3 |
| Relapsing Fever (Continued Fever) | ...... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ...... | ... | ||||
| Puerperal Fever | 2 | ... | ... | ... | 2 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | ......... | ... | ... | ... | |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 4 | ... | 3 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | 2 | ... | 4 | ||
| Polio-Myelitis | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 7 | 6 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis (1) | 193 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 43 | 107 | 29 | 4 | 26 | 31 | 42 | 1 6 | 21 | 39 | 18 | 73* |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis (2) | 51 | 1 | 7 | 23 | 6 | 12 | 2 | ... | 8 | 8 | ... | 4 | 10 | 17 | 4 | 18* |
| Measles | 325 | 13 | 70 | 141 | 59 | 38 | 4 | ... | 48 | 70 | 33 | 20 | 28 | 67 | 59 | 10 |
| German Measles | 558 | 4 | 60 | 260 | 127 | 98 | 9 | ... | 110 | 67 | 72 | 78 | 75 | 84 | 72 | 5 |
| Totals | 1417 | 26 | 186 | 559 | 280 | 288 | 66 | 12 | 236 | 239 | 177 | 132 | 169 | 291 | 173 | 314 |
Isolation Hospitals are provided by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and residents of Hampstead suffering from infectious disease (excluding Tuberculosis) were
chiefly removed to the North-Western Fever Hospital, which is within the Borough, and is situate at Lawn Road, in No. 2 (Belsize) Ward.
Persons suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis were removed to institutions in various r arts of the country.
* These figures relate only to cases notified for the first time in 1916.
(1) Of these 193 cases, 152 were notified on Form A, 2 on Form B, 17 on Form C. and 22 on Form D.
(2) Of these 51 cases, 46 were notified on Form A, 2 on Form B, 2 on Form C. and 1 on Form D.