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Hammersmith 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABULAR STATEMENT—ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The following table shows the number of cases that were reported as due to the undermentioned 20 zymotic diseases during the years 1904 to 1913.
| Year. | Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria or Diphtheritic Croup. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | 1 Simple continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | English Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Plague. | Chicken-pox.* | Measles.* | Whooping Cough.* | Cerebro-Spinal Fever. | Anthrax. | Glanders. | Hydrophobia. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Acute Polio-myelitis. | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 | 0 | 283 | 201 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 120 | 0 | 283 | 742 | 102 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1781 |
| 1905 | 0 | 360 | 237 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 125 | 0 | 219 | 417 | 286 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1698 |
| 1906 | 0 | 439 | 270 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 125 | 0 | 68 | 627 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1629 |
| 1907 | 0 | 577 | 207 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 76 | 0 | 198 | 538 | 337 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1984 |
| 1908 | 0 | 383 | 199 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 65 | 0 | 113 | 161 | 156 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1113 |
| 1909 | 0 | 380 | 188 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 75 | 0 | 140 | 847 | 281 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1943 |
| 1910 | 0 | 340 | 161 | 0 | 31 | I | 0 | 9 | 0 | 63 | 0 | 228 | 484 | 200 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521 |
| 1911 | 0 | 236 | 195 | 1 | 28 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 97 | 0 | 304 | 554 | 250 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 1689 | |
| 1912 | 0 | 335 | 177 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 99 | 0 | 363 | 487 | 208 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 1708 |
| 1913 | 0 | 533 | 141 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 98 | 0 | 171 | 700 | 371 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 2060 |
| Av'rge in last 10 yrs. | 0 | 387 | 198 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 94 | 0 | 209 | 556 | 225 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1713 |
* Not a notifiable disease.