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Hammersmith 1915
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1915
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD RETURN—TABLE II.
Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1915.
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH.
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified | Total Cases Notified in Each Locality. {e.g. Parish or Ward) of the District. | Total Cases Removed to Hospital. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Ages—Years. | ||||||||||||
| At all Ages. | Under 1 | 1 & under 5 Years. | 5 & under 15 Years. | 15 & under 25 Years. | 25 & under 45 Years. | 45 & under 65 Yeat s. | 65 and upwards. | North | Centre | South | ||
| Small-pox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cholera (C) Plague (P) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 163 | 4 | 52 | 84 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 65 | 62 | 36 | 152 |
| Erysipelas | 90 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 27 | 33 | 13 | 48 | 31 | 11 | 24 |
| Scarlet Fever | 405 | 3 | 96 | 244 | 43 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 174 | 175 | 56 | 375 |
| Typhus Fever | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Enteric Fever | 19 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 17 |
| Relapsing Fever (R) Continued Fever (C) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Puerperal Fever | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 18 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 13 |
| Polio-myelitis | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 23 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 366 | 1 | 13 | 38 | 58 | 154 | 88 | 14 | 162 | 126 | 78 | 97 |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 67 | 1 | 17 | 25 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 33 | 27 | 7 | 31 |
| *Chicken-pox | 138 | 8 | 56 | 69 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 56 | 23 | 4 |
| Totals | 1302 | 51 | 247 | 471 | 145 | 226 | 133 | 29 | 582 | 504 | 216 | 717 |
Isolation Hospital or Hospitals. Sanatoria, &c.—Western Fever Hospital, Fulham, and occasionally other Fever Hospitals under the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, and exceptionally the London Fever Hospital at Islington, and when necessary the Small-pox Hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board. •Notifiable from 17th March to 30th June, 1915.