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Hammersmith 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith, Metropolitan Borough of]
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD RETURN.—TABLE II.
Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1913.*
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified | Total Cases Notified in Each Locality. (e.g. Parish or Ward) of the District. | Total Cases Removed to Hospital. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Ages†—Years. | ||||||||||||
| At all Ages. | Under 1 | 1 & under 5 Years. | 5 & under 15 Years. | 15 & under 25 Years. | 25 & under 45 Years. | 45 & under 65 Yeais. | 65 and upwards. | North | Centre | South | ||
| Small-pox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | o | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ‡ Cholera (C) Plague (P) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | o | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 141 | 4 | 38 | 72 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 56 | 59 | 26 | 128 |
| Erysipelas | 98 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 37 | 28 | 10 | 45 | 40 | 13 | 39 |
| Scarlet Fever | 533 | 5 | 1 '5 | 346 | 45 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 299 | 160 | 74 | 473 |
| Typhus Fever | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | o | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Enteric Fever ‡Relapsing Fever (R) | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| Continued Fever (C) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Puerperal Fever | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 5 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | I | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | I | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Polio-myelitis | I | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 594 | 1 | 15 | 91 | 101 | 242 | 127 | 17 | 263 | 204 | 127 | 159 |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 124 | 5 | 21 | 46 | 25 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 63 | 47 | 14 | 38 |
| §Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 7 | |
| Totals | 1536 | 40 | 199 | 566 | 193 | 338 | 172 | 28 | 746 | 531 | 259 | 860 |
NOTES.—State in space below the name and position within or without the district of the isolation hospital or hospitals, sanatoria or other institutions
to which the residents in the district, suffering from infectious disease, have usually been sent, and the name of the authority by whom the
hospital is provided.
This space may be used for record of other diseases the notification (compulsory or voluntary) of which is in force in the district.
† These age columns for notifications should be filled up in all cases where the Medical Officer of Health, by inquiry or otherwise, has obtained
the necessary information.
‡ Specify the disease by initial against the figure.
* The figures should take account of any corrections made as a result of error in notification or revision of diagnosis as a result of the further
course of the disease (cf para (3) on p 3 of the Weekly Summary of Cases of Infectious Diseases).
Isolation Hospital or Hospitals, Sanatoria, &c.—Western Fever Hospital, Fulham, and occasionally other Fever Hospitals under the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, and exceptionally the London Fever Hospital at Islington, and when necessary the Small-pox Hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board.
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