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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 1919
Report for the year 1919 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year 1919.
| notifiable disease. | Number of cases notified. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward. | Total Cases removed to Hospital. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 45. | 45 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | ||||||||||
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis, acute | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
| Diphtheria | 76 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 25 | 12 | 7 | 14 | 63 | |||||||
| Dysentery | 8 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 5 | 2 | .. |
| Encephalitis Lethargica, acute | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
| Enteric Fever | 7 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | |||||
| Erysipelas | 41 | .. | .. | 8 | 5 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||
| Malaria | 25 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 3 | 8 | .. | 1 | 5 | 3 | |||||
| Measles | 650 | 23 | 255 | 322 | 27 | .. | 43 | 25 | 60 | 198 | 58 | 24 | ||||
| German Measles | 172 | .. | 24 | 24 | 3 | .. | 23 | 23 | ||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | |||
| Pneumonia.. | 73 | 3 | .. | 5 | 32 | 17 | 6 | |||||||||
| Polio-Myelitis, acute | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | ||
| Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | ||
| Scarlet Fever | .. | 20 | .. | .. | 25 | 27 | 9 | 91 | ||||||||
| "Tuberculosis, Pulmonary | 165 | .. | 1 | 14 | 36 | 95 | 19 | .. | 25 | 47 | 74 | |||||
| Tuberculosis, Non-Pulmonary | 48 | 5 | 21 | 8 | 7 | 3 | .. | 9 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | |||
| Totals | 1400 | 315 | 555 | 165 | 240 | 58 | 27 | 245 | 183 | 91 | 149 | 235 | 358 | 139 | 295 | |
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 parts of the country.
* These figures relate only to cases notified for the first time in 1919.