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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
Hampstead 1903
Report for the year 1903 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Cases of Infectious Disease occurring in each Ward during 1903.
| Disease. | No. 1 * (Town) | No. 2† (Belsize) | No. 3 (Adelaide) | No. 4 (Central) | No. 5 (West End) | No. 6 (Kilburn) | No. 7 (Priory) | Totals. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
| Diphtheria & Membranous Croup | 7 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 11 | 18 | 79 |
| Erysipelas | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 3 | 41 |
| Scarlet Fever | 21 | 37 | 14 | 23 | 24 | 26 | 20 | 165 |
| Typhoid and Enteric Fever | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 24 |
| Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
| Continued, Typhus and Relapsing Fevers, and Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Chicken-pox | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | 7 | .. | 1 | 12 |
| Totals | 38 | 62 | 22 | 36 | 62 | 59 | 44 | 323 |
* In this Ward are included 1 case of Erysipelas, and 1 of Enteric Fever, occurring in the Workhouse.
† In this Ward are included 1 case of Diphtheria and 1 of Scarlet Fever, occurring in the North-Western Hospital, Lawn Road.