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Hammersmith 1908
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1908
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD RETURN.—TABLE III.
Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1908.
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH.
| Notifiable Diseases. | Cases Notified in whole District. | Total Cases Notified in Each Locality | No. of Cases Removed to Hospital from Each Locality. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages | At Ages†—Years. | W | W | Total cases removed to Hospital | ||||||||||
| Under 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to IS | 15 to 25 | 25 to 65 | 65 and upwards | North | Centre | Souh | North | Centre | South | |||
| Small-pox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cholera | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Diphtheria including) Membranous croup) | 199 | 7 | 53 | 105 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 83 | 72 | 44 | 73 | 61 | 34 | 168 |
| Erysipelas | 65 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 43 | 11 | 31 | 20 | 14 | 40 | 9 | 3 | 22 |
| Scarlet fever | 383 | 2 | 107 | 222 | 33 | 19 | 0 | 1 9 | 106 | 88 | 170 | 91 | 86 | 347 |
| Typhus fever | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Enteric fever | 29 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 23 |
| Relapsing fever | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Continued fever | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Puerperal fever | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Plague | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| *CereboSpinal Meningitis | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| ‡Phthisis | 118 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 25 | 84 | 4 | 49 | 35 | 34 | 41 | 32 | 34 | 107 |
| Total | 801 | 9 | 166 | 342 | 90 | 179 | 15 | 371 | 245 | 185 | 307 | 201 | 162 | 670 |
NOTES.- The localities adopted for this table should be the same as those in Tables II. and IV.
State in space below the name of the isolation hospital, if any, to which residents in the district, suffering from infectious disease, are
usually sent Mark (H) the locality in which it is situated, or if not Within the district, state where it is situated, and in what
district. The name of the authority by whom the hospital is provided should also be given. Mark (W) the locality in which a
Workhouse is situated.
*Cerebo Spinal Fever was made notifiable on September 13th, 1907.
†These age columns for notifications should be filled up in all cases where the Medical Officer of Health, by enquiry or otherwise, has
obtained the necessary information.
‡Voluntarily notifiable since April 7th, 1902.
Isolation Hospital—Western District Hospital at Fulham, and occasionally other Fever Hospitals under the Metropolitan Asylums Board,
and exceptionally the London Fever Hospital at Islington, also when necessary the Small-pox Hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board.