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Hampstead 1911
Report for the year 1911 of the Medical Officer of Health
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NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The list of infectious diseases notifiable in London during 1911 is
as follows: —
Small-pox Continued Fever
Cholera Puerperal Fever
Diphtheria Anthrax
Membranous Croup Hydrophobia
Erysipelas Glanders
occuring
in
Man
Scarlet Fever Ophthalmia Neonatorum (from
Epidemic Cerebro-spinal 13th March, 1911)
Meningitis Polio-Myelitis (from 1st September,
Plague 1911)
Typhoid Fever Chicken-pox (for 3 months from
Typhus Fever 22nd March, 1911)
Relapsing Fever
Information concerning Consumption will be found in the Tuberculosis
Section (see pages 53-64).
The total cases of infectious disease notified numbered 403. This
is equivalent to an attack rate of 4.7 per 1000 of the population. The
following shows the number of cases of each disease notified:—
Scorlet Fever 125
Enteric Fever 13
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup 141
Puerperal Fever 6
Erysipelas 49
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 5
Polio-Myelitis 6
Chicken-pox 58