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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
Hammersmith 1911
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1911
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reported last year was treated at the Isolation Hospital
of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. One death was
registered, the patient, however, was a non-parishioner,
the mortality rate being 100 per cent.
GLANDERS.
No case was reported as due to glanders, against
one case in the previous year.
ANTHRAX.
No case was reported as due to anthrax, against
one case in the previous year.
HYDROPHOBIA.
No case was reported as due to hydrophobia last
year, against no case in the previous year.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
Eighteen cases were reported as due to ophthalmia
neonatorum, this disease having been made notifiable
from the 13th March, 1911. The cases reported last
year were treated: 14 at the homes of the patients, 3 at
the Hammersmith Infirmary, and 1 at St. Mary's
Hospital, Paddington Green.
ACUTE POLIO-MYELITIS.
One case was reported as due to polio-myelitis,
this disease having been made notifiable from 1st
September, 1911. The case reported was removed to
the Isolation Hospital of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board.