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recovery skilled nursing, plenty of good food and healthy surrounding
are necessary, and who are unable to obtain these necessities in their own
homes. The number of Hampstead patients removed to the Board's
hospitals during the year was 44.
Whooping Cough.
Whooping Cough was much less prevalent in Hampstead during
1911 than in the two preceding years, the number of deaths being 3,
as compared with 11 in 1910 and 18 in 1909. The mortality per 1000
population was 0-03. Like measles, whooping cough tends to become
complicated by pneumonia, and the patients require to be carefully
looked after, but unfortunately it is popularly regarded as a disease of
slight importance.
Hospital treatment is much needed in certain cases of whooping
cough, and the Metropolitan Asylums Board now provide hospital
accomodation for patients admitted through the Poor Law.
Diarrhæa.
The number of deaths from this cause was 15, as compared with 8
in 1910, the death-rate per 1000 of the population being 0.17.
Twelve of these deaths occurred among children under one year of
age.
The increased mortality was due to the exceptionally hot weather
that prevailed during the third quarter of the year. With one exception
all the deaths took place in the months of July, August and
September.