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Hammersmith 1902
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1902
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PLAGUE.
No case was reported on due to plague, against no
case in the previous year.
TABLE V. The following table shows the number of cases that were reported as due to the undermentioned 14 zymotic diseases during the years 1893 to 1902.
| Year. | Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria or Diphtheritic Croup. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | .Simple Continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | English Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Plague. | Chicken-pox.* | Measles.* | Whooping Cough.* | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1893 | 21 | 673 | 282 | 0 | 68 | 4 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 184 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 51 | 1309 |
| 1894 | 7 | 332 | 189 | 0 | 52 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 92 | 0 | 1 | 86 | 55 | 826 |
| 1895 | 7 | 382 | 202 | 0 | 57 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 89 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 42 | 819 |
| 1896 | 1 | 528 | 217 | 1 | 53 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 121 | 0 | 5 | 74 | 61 | 1073 |
| 1897 | 0 | 399 | 158 | 0 | 46 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 29 | 748 |
| 1898 | 0 | 458 | 163 | 0 | 59 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 91 | 0 | 10 | 357 | 47 | 1194 |
| 1899 | 0 | 442 | 186 | 0 | 113 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 109 | 0 | 18 | 42 | 54 | 976 |
| 1900 | 2 | 355 | 252 | 0 | 103 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 111 | 0 | 21 | 487 | 13 | 1354 |
| 1901 | 46 | 343 | 227 | 0 | 77 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 115 | 0 | 28 | 193 | 207 | 1241 |
| 1902 | 92 | 349 | 172 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 110 | 0 | 659 | 293 | 78 | 1809 |
* Not a notifiable disease, except last year in the case of Chicken-pox.
TABLE VI.
The following table has been prepared by me under
an instruction of the Local Government Board.