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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 1907
Report for the year 1907 of the Medical Officer of Health
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The following table shows the age distribution of the patients dying from consumption in Hampstead in the five years 1903.1907.
| Year. | Age Period. | AllAges. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0—5 | 5—15 | 15—25 | 25—65 | 65— | ||
| 1903 | — | 1 | 14 | 46 | 5 | 66 |
| 1904 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 53 | 3 | 73 |
| 1905 | 1 | — | 12 | 57 | 3 | 73 |
| 1906 | 1 | — | 8 | 45 | 3 | 57 |
| 1907 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 45 | 3 | 61 |
| Totals | 4 | 4 | 59 | 246 | 17 | 330 |
In 1902 a system of voluntary notification of Phthisis came into operation in Hampstead. The following table gives the number of patients notified in each year since 1902:—
| Year. | No. of patients notified. |
|---|---|
| 1902 | 51 |
| 1903 | 34 |
| 1904 | 39 |
| 1905 | 27 |
| 1906 | 35 |
| 1907 | 55 |
Five of the notification certificates received during 1907 related to patients who had already been notified; the number of new cases notified was, therefore, 50, and of these 18 were males and 32 females. The notifications received were from the following sources:—
| Patients notified by the Poor Law Medical Officers . | 14 |
| Patients notified from the Hampstead General Hospital | 3 |
| Patients notified from the Mount Vernon Hospital Out Patient department | 25 |
| Patients notified by private practitioners | 13 |