[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]

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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA. General Statistics, 1942.

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Vital Statistics.

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The following table shows the number of deaths from Cancer under the various age groups during the past 10 years:—

Year.	Total Deaths.	Sex.	All Ages.	1—	2—	5—	15—	25—	35—	45—	55—	65 —	75-

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Death rate calculated on the estimated population of each Ward.

Ward.	Estimated Population.	No. of Deaths.	Death Rate.

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Statistics.—The following table gives the statistics of the Borough during 1942 and previous years:— Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1942 and Previous Years.

Year.	Population estimated to middle of each year.	Births.			Total Deaths Registered in the District.		Transferable Deaths		Nett Deaths belonging to the District.
		Uncorrected Number.	Nett.		Number.	Rate.	of Non-residents registered in the District.	of Residents not registered in the District	Under 1 Year of Age.		At all Ages.
		Uncorrected Number.	Number.	Rate.	Number.	Rate.	of Non-residents registered in the District.	of Residents not registered in the District	Number.	Rate per 1,000 Nett Birth.	Number.	Rate
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13

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Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1942.

Cause of Death.	Sex.	0—	1—	5 —	15—	45—	65—	Total all Ages.

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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE. The following table gives the number of births and deaths of infants and the rate per 1,000 births:—

Year.	Births.	Deaths of Infants,	Deaths of Infants per 1000 births.

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The following table shows the deaths of infants under one year of age and the cause:— INFANT MORTALITY, 1942. Infantile Mortality during the year 1942. Nett deaths from stated causes at various ages under one year of age.

CAUSES OF DEATH.	Under 1 Week.	1-2 Weeks.	2-3 Weeks.	3- 4 Weeks.	Total under 4 Weeks.	4 Weeks, and under 3 months.	3 months and under 6 months.	6 months and under 9 months.	9 months and under 1 year.	Total Deaths under 1 year.

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Visits paid by Health Visitors are enumerated in detail below:-

	District
	No. 1	No. 2	No. 3	No. 4	No. 5	No. 6	No. 7	No. 8	No. 9	No. 10	Total

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Schedule of Attendances at Infant Welfare Centres, and Ante-Natal Clinics.

Address of Clinic.	No. of Clinics	New Cases.				Total Attendances.
		Mothers.		Children.		Mothers.		Children.
		Antenatal.	Postnatal.	Under 1 yr.	Over 1 yr.	Antenatal.	Postnatal.	Under 1 yr.	Over l yr.

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MATERNAL DEATHS. The number of Maternal Deaths during the past eighteen years is as follows:—

Year.	Number of Deaths.		Number of live Births.	Maternal Death Rate.
	Puerperal Sepsis.	Other Accidents of Pregnancy.

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Infectious Diseases of Mothers and Children under Five Years of Age.

Disease.	No. of Cases Notified.	Previous Year.	No. of Cases Visited.	No. of Cases Nursed.	No. of Cases Removed to Hospital.

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Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—The number of cases reported was three against eight in the previous year. The analysis of the final reports received is as follows :—

Cases.			Vision unimpaired.	Vision Impaired	Total Blindness.	Removed from District.	Still under Treatment.	Deaths.
Notified.	Treated.
Notified.	At Home.	In Hospital.

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NUMBER OF INSPECTIONS MADE DURING 1942.

Cause of Inspection.	Inspectors.
Cause of Inspection.	W. A. Collins	P. T. Bayes	E. J. Nether	F. Q. Barry	J. R. Bally	J. E. Broadhead	J. C. Hopkins	G. W Herrick	H. W. Potter	W. Rigby	W. J. Godden	Miss E. M Cross	Total

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Notices.—The following table shows the number of Preliminary Notices served and complied with during the year:—

	Notices Served.	Notices complied with.

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SUMMONSES—YEAR 1942. The following table shows the number of proceedings instituted during the year:—

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1.—INSPECTION OF FACTORIES.

Premises	Number of
	Number of			Inspections.	Written Notices.	Occupiers Prosecuted.

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2.—DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES, ETC.

Particulars		Number of Defects			Number of Prosecutions
		Number of Defects				Found	Remedied	Referred to H.M. Inspector

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3.—OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO FACTORIES.

Class.		Number.

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Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1942.

Notifiable Disease	Number of Cases Notified.													Wards.							Total Removed to Hospital.
	Number of Cases Notified.																					At all Ages	Age Periods.
	Under 1	1—	2—	3—	4—	5—	10—	15—	20—	35—	45—	65—	1									At all Ages	2	3	4	5	6	7

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The following table shows the deaths of residents registered from the seven principal zymotic diseases which occurred in the ten years, 1933 to 1942:—

Year.	Smallpox.	Measles.	Scarlet Fever.	Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.	Whooping Cough.	Enteric Fever.	Diarrhœa and Cholera.	Total.

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Notifiable Diseases (other than Tuberculosis) during the Year 1942.

DISEASE.	Total cases notified.	Cases admitted to Hospital.	Total deaths.

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TABULAR STATEMENT—ZYMOTIC DISEASES. The following table shows the number of cases that were reported as due to the undermentioned diseases during the years 1933 to 1942.

Year.	Smallpox.	Scarlet Fever.	Diphtheria or Diphtheritic Croup.	Typhus Fever.	Enteric Fever.	Simple Continued Fever.	Relapsing Fever.	Puerperal Fever.	Puerperal Pyrexia. d	Cholera.	Erysipelas.	Plague.	Chicken pox. a	Measles. b	Whooping Cough. b	Cerebro-Spinal Fever.	Anthrax.	Glanders.	Hydrophobia.	Ophthalmia Neonatorum.	Acute Polio-Myelitis.	Encephalitis Lethargica.	Pneumonia. c	Malaria. c	Dysentery. c	Trench Fever. e	Food Poisoning. f	Total.

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VACCINATION RETURNS. RETURN FOR 1941.

Registration Sub-Districts comprised in the Vaccination Officers' District	N umber of Births returned in the "Birth List Sheets" as registered from 1st January to 31st Dec., 1941	Number of these Births duly entered by 31st January, 1943, in Columns I, II, IV and V of the "Vaccination Register" (Birth List Sheets), viz.:					Number of these Births which on 31st January, 1943, remained unentered in the "Vaccination Register" on account (as shown by Report Book) of			Number of these Births remaining on 31st January, 1943, neither duly entered in the "Vaccination Register" (columns 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of this Return) nor temporarily accounted for In the "Report Book" (columns 8, 9 and 10 of this Return	Number of Certificates of Successful Primary Vaccination of children under 14 years received during the calendar year 1942	Number of statutory Declarations of Conscientious Objection actually received by the Vaccination Officer irrespective of the dates of birth of the children to which they relate during the calendar year 1942
		Col. 1 Successfully Vaccinated	Col. II		Col. IV. Number in respect of whom Certificates of Conscientious Objection have been received	Col. V Dead, Unvaccinated	Postponement by Medical Certificate	Removal to Districts, the Vaccination Officer of which has been duly apprised	Removal to Places unknown or which cannot be reached; and Cases not having been found
		Col. 1 Successfully Vaccinated	Insusceptible of Vaccination	Had Small-Pox		Col. V Dead, Unvaccinated	Postponement by Medical Certificate
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13

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Table showing Work of Vaccination Officer from 1st January to 31st December, 1942.

	No. of Vaccination Certificates received from—						No. of Insusceptibility Certificates.	Total No. of Certificates.	No. of Declarations of Conscientious Objection.	No. of Postponement Certificates.	No. of Cases Removed Inwards.	No. of Cases Removed Outwards.	No. of "Q" Notices Sent.	No. of "K" Notices Served.	No. of Children Died Unvaccinated.	No. of Cases Removed and not Traced.	Nos. entered on "H" Lists to Public Vaccinators.
	District No. 1.	District No. 2.	District No. 3.	District No. 4.	District No. 5.	Other Doctors.	No. of Insusceptibility Certificates.	Total No. of Certificates.	No. of Declarations of Conscientious Objection.	No. of Postponement Certificates.	No. of Cases Removed Inwards.	No. of Cases Removed Outwards.	No. of "Q" Notices Sent.	No. of "K" Notices Served.	No. of Children Died Unvaccinated.	No. of Cases Removed and not Traced.	District No. 1.	District No. 2	District No. 3.	District No. 4.	District No. 5.	Total

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PART 1. Summary of Notifications during the period from the 1st January, 1942, to the 31st December, 1942.

Age Periods	Formal Notifications
	Number of Primary Notifications of new cases of Tuberculosis
	0-	1-	5-	10-	\ 15-	20-	25-	35-	45-	55-	65-	Total (all ages

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PART II. Supplemental Return. New cases of Tuberculosis coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the above-mentioned period, otherwise than by formal notification.

Age Periods	0-	1-	5-	10-	15-	20-	25-	35-	45-	55-	65-	Total

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The following table has been prepared, giving particulars of new cases of tuberculosis and of deaths from tuberculosis during 1942:—

Age Periods	New Cases.				Deaths.
	Respiratory 1		Non-Respiratory		Respiratory		Non-Respiratory

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The following table indicates the number of cases and deaths from Tuberculosis:—

Year.	No. of Cases notified.			No. of Deaths.	No. of Cases on Dispensary Register.	No. of Cases on Register of Notifications.
	Pulmonary	Non-Pulmonary.	Total.

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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA. General Statistics, 1942.

Vital Statistics.

The following table shows the number of deaths from Cancer under the various age groups during the past 10 years:—

Death rate calculated on the estimated population of each Ward.

Statistics.—The following table gives the statistics of the Borough during 1942 and previous years:— Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1942 and Previous Years.

Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1942.

MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE. The following table gives the number of births and deaths of infants and the rate per 1,000 births:—

The following table shows the deaths of infants under one year of age and the cause:— INFANT MORTALITY, 1942. Infantile Mortality during the year 1942. Nett deaths from stated causes at various ages under one year of age.

Visits paid by Health Visitors are enumerated in detail below:-

Schedule of Attendances at Infant Welfare Centres, and Ante-Natal Clinics.

MATERNAL DEATHS. The number of Maternal Deaths during the past eighteen years is as follows:—

Infectious Diseases of Mothers and Children under Five Years of Age.

Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—The number of cases reported was three against eight in the previous year. The analysis of the final reports received is as follows :—

NUMBER OF INSPECTIONS MADE DURING 1942.

Notices.—The following table shows the number of Preliminary Notices served and complied with during the year:—

SUMMONSES—YEAR 1942. The following table shows the number of proceedings instituted during the year:—

1.—INSPECTION OF FACTORIES.

2.—DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES, ETC.

3.—OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO FACTORIES.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1942.

The following table shows the deaths of residents registered from the seven principal zymotic diseases which occurred in the ten years, 1933 to 1942:—

Notifiable Diseases (other than Tuberculosis) during the Year 1942.

TABULAR STATEMENT—ZYMOTIC DISEASES. The following table shows the number of cases that were reported as due to the undermentioned diseases during the years 1933 to 1942.

VACCINATION RETURNS. RETURN FOR 1941.

Table showing Work of Vaccination Officer from 1st January to 31st December, 1942.

PART 1. Summary of Notifications during the period from the 1st January, 1942, to the 31st December, 1942.

PART II. Supplemental Return. New cases of Tuberculosis coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the above-mentioned period, otherwise than by formal notification.

The following table has been prepared, giving particulars of new cases of tuberculosis and of deaths from tuberculosis during 1942:—

The following table indicates the number of cases and deaths from Tuberculosis:—

Figures for the years 1926-42, showing the interval between notification and death of tuberculous persons are as under:—