Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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Disease. | No. of Cases Notified. | Previous Year. | No. of Cases Visited. | No. of Cases Nursed. | No. of Cases Removed to Hospital. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Puerperal Fever | 11 | 12 | 11 | — | 11 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 12 | 13 | 12 | — | 12 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 8 | 3 | — | 3 |
Epidemic Diarrhœa* | 18 | 7 | — | — | — |
Measles and German Measles (under 5) | 402 | 193 | 402 | 11 | 117 |
Whooping Cough (under 5) | 269 | 146 | 269 | 7 | 103 |
Poliomyelitis (under 5) | — | 1 | — | — | — |
* Summer Diarrhœa.—As this is not a notifiable disease the figures
available are those of deaths which were registered as having been due to
this cause.
Cases. | Vision unimpaired. | Vision Impaired | Total Blindness. | Removed from District. | Still under Treatment. | Deaths. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Notified. | Treated. | |||||||
At Home. | In Hospital. | |||||||
25.4.42 | — | 1 | Yes | — | — | — | — | — |
5.5.42 | — | 1 | „ | — | — | — | — | — |
29.8.42 | — | 1 | ,, | — | — | — | — | — |
Totals | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — |