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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 1915
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1915
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The following chart shows the number of Deaths from Whooping
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ENTERIC FEVER.
Nineteen cases were reported as due to enteric
fever, against 14 in the previous year. Fifteen of the
cases reported last year were treated at the Isolation
Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 1 at the
Hammersmith Infirmary, 1 at the West London Hospital,
and 2 at the homes of the patients. Two deaths