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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NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Information concerning Consumption will be found in the
Tuberculosis Section (see pages 55-56).
The list of infectious diseases notifiable in London under Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, during 1912 was as follows:—
Small-pox | Typhus Fever | |
Cholera | Relapsing Fever | |
Diphtheria | Continued Fever | |
Membranous Croup | Puerperal Fever | |
Erysipelas | Anthrax | occuring in Man |
Scarlet Fever | Hydrophobia | |
Epidemic Cerebro-spinal | Glanders | |
Meningitis | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | |
Plague | Polio-Myelitis | |
Tvphoid Fever |
The total cases of infectious disease notified numbered 320.
This is equivalent to an attack rate of 3.7 per 1000 of the population.
The following shows the number of cases of each disease notified:—
Scarlet Fever | 101 |
Enteric Fever | 9 |
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 155 |
Puerperal Fever | 3 |
Erysipelas | |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | |
Polio-Myelitis | 1 |
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 1 |