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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
West Ham 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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10
Zymotic Diseases.—The total deaths from the seven
principal Zymotic diseases numbered 952, making an annual Zymotic
death.rate of 3.15 per 1,000, the average Zymotic death.rate during
the previous ten years being 3.49 per 1,000. In the following tables
I append particulars, so far as possible, relating to each disease
separately—both notifiable and non.notifiable epidemic diseases. In
the latter cases, however, the returns of cases being obtained from
the School Attendance Officers are necessarily inexact.
| Disease. | Notified Cases. | Deaths. | Attack . rate per 1,000. | Death. rate per 1,000. | Average Death. rate, 10 years, 1896. 1905. | Percentage Deaths to Attacks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small.pox | — | — | — | |||
| Scarlet Fever | ||||||
| Diphtheria | ||||||
| Enteric Fever | ||||||
| Puerperal Fever | ||||||
| Erysipelas |
| Disease. | Reported cases. | Deaths. | Death.Rate per 1,000. | Average death.Rate 10 years, 1896.1905. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diarrhcea | _ | 578 | 1.91 | 1.56 |
| Measles | 2,325 | 123 | 0.40 | 0.52 |
| Whooping Cough | 298 | 70 | 0.23 | 0.48 |
| Chicken.pox | 756 | — | — | |
| Mumps | 390 | — | — | — |
| Ringworm | 23 | — | — | — |
| Scabies | 8 | — | . | — |