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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 1896
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Parish of Hammersmith for the 53 weeks ending January 2nd, 1897.
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TABLE IV.
The following shows the number of cases that were reported as due to the undermentioned 13 zymotic diseases during the years 1888 to 1896.
| Year. | Smallpox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria or Diptheritic Croup. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Simple Continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | English Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Chickenpox. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *1888 | 1 | 190 | 54 | 0 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 139 | 78 | 496 |
| *1880 | 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 | 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 |
| 1895 | 7 | 382 | 202 | 0 | 57 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 89 | 2 | 30 | 42 | 819 |
| 1896 | 1 | 528 | 217 | 1 | 53 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 121 | 5 | 74 | 61 | 1073 |
*These statistics must not he taken as a true comparison, as the Infectious
Diseases Notification Act, 1889, only came into force October 31st, 1889.
TABLE V.
The following Table marked (B) has been prepared
by me under an instruction of the Local Government
Board.
NOTES ON TABLE B.
(See also Notes on back of Table A.)
Note 1. The present Table B is concerned with population, births, and sickness
(not with mortality) in the Sanitary district or division to which
the table relates.
1. As stated in the heading of Col. (a), Public Institutions should be
regarded as separate localities, and the new cases of sickness in
them should be separately recorded. Workhouses. Hospitals,
Infirmaries, Asylums, and other establishments into which numbers
of people, and especially of sick people, are received, are Public
Institutions for the purpose of these statistics.
3. Comments on any unequal incidence of notifiable disease upon the
several localities, and considerations as to the local incidence of
consumption and other prevalent diseases, should be made in the text
of the Report.