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Hampstead 1907
Report for the year 1907 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Whooping Cough.
There were 12 deaths from this disease in 1907, as compared
with 2 in 1906. The mortality per 1000 population was 0.13.
Diarrhoea.
The number of deaths from this cause was 5, as compared
with 19 in 1906. The death rate per 1000 of the population from
this disease was 0.05.
In the following table these deaths are arranged in month and Wards:—
| Month. | WARDS. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 1 (Town) | No. 2 (Belsize) | No. 3 (Adelaide) | No. 4(Central)' | No. 5 (West End) | No. 6 (Kilburn) | No. 7 (Priory) | Totals | |
| January | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| February | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| March | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| April | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| May | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| June | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| July | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| August | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| September | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| October | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| November | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| December | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Totals | — | 2 | — | — | — | 3 | — | 5 |
Of these deaths 4 occurred among children under one year of
age, the other being that of an adult of over 65 years of age.