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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
Hammersmith 1894
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Parish of Hammersmith for the year ending December 29th, 1894.
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Isolation Hospital of the Metropolitan Asylums Board,
and three cases were treated at the homes of the patients.
No death occurred.
PUERPERAL FEVER.
Eight cases were reported as due to puerperal fever
last year, against 19 cases in the previous year. All of the
cases reported last Year were treated at the homes of the
patients. The mortality on the cases reported was 37.5 per
cent.
CHOLERA.
No case was reported as due to cholera last year, against
one case in the previous year.
ERYSIPELAS.
Ninety-two cases were reported as due to erysipelas
iast year, against 184 cases in the previous year. Of the
92 cases reported last year nine were treated in the
Fulham Union Infirmary, and 83 at the homes of the
patients. The mortality rate on the cases reported was
3.26 per cent.
TABLE IV. The following table shows the number of cases that were reported as due to the under-mentioned 13 zymotic diseases during the years 1888 to 1894:—
| Year. | Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria or Diphtheritic Group | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever | Simple Continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | English Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Chicken-pox. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *1888 | 1 | 190 | 54 | 0 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 139 | 78 | 496 |
| *1889 | 0 | 221 | 99 | 0 | 41 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 63 | 37 | 479 |
| 1890 | 0 | 334 | 218 | 0 | 67 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 81 | 4 | 122 | 75 | 906 |
| 1891 | 0 | 233 | 272 | 0 | 42 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 61 | 1 | 37 | 50 | 709 |
| 1892 | 3 | 462 | 322 | 0 | 46 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 124 | 6 | 167 | 53 | 1197 |
| 1893 | 21 | 673 | 282 | 0 | 68 | 4 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 184 | 0 | 6 | 51 | 1309 |
| 1894 | 7 | 332 | 189 | 0 | 52 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 92 | 1 | 86 | 55 | 826 |
*These statistics must not be taken as a true comparison, as the Infectious
Diseases (Notification) Act, 1889, only came into force on October 31st, 1889.
TABLE V.
The following Table marked ( B) has been prepared by
me under an instruction of the Local Government Board.