London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 table shows the number of cases that were reported as due to the undermentioned 20 zymotic diseases during the years 1906 to 1915.
| Year. | Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria or Diphtheritic Croup. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Simple continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | English Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Plague. | Chicken-pox.* | Measles * | Whooping Cough.* | Cerebro-spinal Fever. | Anthrax. | Glanders. | Hydrophobia. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Acute Polio-myelitis. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | 0 | 439 | 270 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 10 | O | 125 | 0 | 68 | 627 | 56 | 0 | 0 | O | O | 0 | 0 | 1629 |
| 1907 | 0 | 577 | 207 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 76 | 0 | 198 | 538 | 337 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1984 |
| 1908 | 0 | 383 | 199 | 0 | 29 | 0 | O | 6 | 0 | 65 | 0 | 113 | 161 | 156 | 1 | O | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1113 |
| 1909 | 0 | 380 | 188 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 14 | O | 75 | 0 | 140 | 847 | 281 | 1 | O | O | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1943 |
| 1910 | 0 | 340 | 161 | 0 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 9 | O | 63 | O | 228 | 484 | 200 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521 |
| 1911 | 0 | 236 | 195 | 1 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 97 | O | 304 | 554 | 250 | 1 | O | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 1689 |
| 1912 | 0 | 335 | 177 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 99 | 0 | 363 | 487 | 208 | 3 | O | O | 0 | 17 | 1 | 1708 |
| 1913 | 0 | 533 | 141 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 98 | 0 | 171 | 700 | 371 | 1 | 0 | 0 | O | 22 | 1 | 2060 |
| 1914 | 0 | 954 | 157 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 102 | 0 | 235 | 491 | 232 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 2225 |
| 1915 | 0 | 405 | 163 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 369 | 619 | 227 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 8 | 1946 |
| Av'rge in last 10 yrs. | 0 | 458 | 186 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 89 | 0 | 219 | 551 | 232 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 1782 |
• Not a notifiable disease,