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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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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1933 | 0 | 895 | 241 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 33 | 0 | 97 | 0 | 333 | 299 | 319 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 179 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 2445 |
1934 | 0 | 609 | 549 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 0 | 79 | 0 | 422 | 1334 | 272 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 154 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3467 |
1935 | 0 | 349 | 333 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 435 | 45 | 312 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 88 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 9 | 1678 |
1936. | 0 | 335 | 130 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 21 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 293 | 1372 | 234 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 83 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 2567 |
1937 | 0 | 332 | 179 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 37 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 353 | 81 | 314 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 89 | 2 | 26 | 0 | 2 | 1495 |
1938 | 0 | 291 | 189 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 16 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 429 | 1859 | 166 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 115 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 5 | 3181 |
1939 | 0 | 125 | 104 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 32 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 188 | 33 | 736 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 96 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 3 | 1406 |
1940 | 0 | 71 | 43 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 31 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 46 | 172 | 18 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 48 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 525 |
1941 | 0 | 71 | 68 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 13 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 25 | 546 | 254 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 1113 |
1942 | 0 | 282 | 60 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 235 | 999 | 465 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 39 | 2214 |
Average for 10 years | 0 | 336 | 190 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 24 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 276 | 674 | 309 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 95 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 8 | 2008 |
a Not Notifiable. b Notifiable from 1st October, 1938. c Notifiable from 1st March, 1919. d Notifiable from 1st October, 1926.
e Notifiable from 1st March, 1919, to 31/12/1927. f Notifiable from 12th July, 1932.