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 Hampstead, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE II.
notifiable disease. | Number of cases notified. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward. | Total Cases removed to Hospital. | |||||||||||||
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At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | Ward No. 1 (Town). | Ward No. 2 (Belsize). | Ward No 3 (Adelaide). | Ward No. 4 (Central). | Ward No. 5 (West End). | Ward No. 6 (Kilburn). | Ward No. 7 (Priory). | ||||||||
Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | ||||||||||
Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 155 | .. | 59 | 76 | 14 | 5 | 1 | .. | 22 | 35 | 6 | 15 | 37 | 34 | 6 | 123 |
Ervsipelas | 44 | 1 | .. | 2 | 10 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 13 |
Scarlet Fever | 101 | .. | 20 | 52 | 22 | 7 | .. | .. | 10 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 18 | 23 | 11 | 77 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 9 | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 4 | 1 | .. | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 2 |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Polio-Myelitis | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 183 | .. | 3 | 24 | 41 | 89 | 21 | 5 | 43 | 25 | 21† | 5 | 33 | 37 | 191 | 108 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 6 | 6 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 5 | .. | 1 |
Totals | 503 | 8 | 82 | 155 | 92 | 123 | 24 | 9 | 90 | 87 | 45 | 34 | 98 | 107 | 42 | 330 |
Isolation Hospitals are provided by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and residents of Hampstead suffering from infectious disease are usually
sent to the North-Western Hospital which is within the Borough, and is situate at Lawn Road, in No. 2 (Belsize) Ward.
A number of Consumptives were removed to the Hampstead Workhouse Infirmary, others to the Mount Vernon Hospital; the remainder
being sent to Sanatoria in various parts of the country.
* 12 in Institutions. † 1 in Institution. ‡ 2 in Institutions.