Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1914 of the Medical Officer of Health
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TABLE II. (Required by the Local Government Board to be used in the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health.) Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year 1914.
notifiable disease. | Number of cases notified. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward. | Total Cases removed to Hospital. | |||||||||||||
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At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | Ward No. 1 (Town). | Ward No. 2 (Belsize). | Ward No 3 (Adelaide). | Ward No. 4 (Central). | Ward No. 5 (West End). | Ward No. 6 (Kilburn). | Ward No. 7 (Priory). | ||||||||
Under 1. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 45. | 45 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | ||||||||||
Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cholera, Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 224. | 1 | 26 | 154 | 28 | 13 | 2 | .. | 95 | 27 | 9 | 10 | 17 | 42 | 24 | 200 |
Erysipelas | 44 | 1 | 2 | .. | 3 | 11 | 23 | .. | 8 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
Scarlet Fever | 278 | 1 | 36 | 162 | 51 | 23 | 2 | .. | 25 | 43 | 14 | 13 | 39 | 121 | 23 | 241 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 16 | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | 8 | 3 | .. | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
Relapsing Fever. Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 7 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 6 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | 7 |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Polio-Myelitis | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 12 | 12 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 |
Pulmonary Tuberculosis (1) | 142* | .. | 2 | 7 | 30 | 73 | 25 | 5 | 32 | 17 | 16 | 7 | 19 | 32 | 19 | 55* |
Other forms of Tuberculosis (2) | 30* | 4 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 1 | .. | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 13* |
Totals | 755 | 19 | 71 | 332 | 129 | 139 | 56 | 9 | 166 | 109 | 48 | 38 | 91 | 225 | 78 | 5.0 |
Isolation Hospitals are provided by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and residents of Hampstead suffering from infectious disease (excluding
Tuberculosis) were chiefly removed to the North-Western Fever Hospital, which is within the Borough, and is situate at Lawn Road, in
No. 2 (Belsize) Ward.
Persons suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis were removed to institutions in various parts of the country.
* These figures relate only to cases notified for the first time in 1914.
(1) Of these 142 cases, 124 were notified on Form A, 8 on Form and 10 on Form D.
(2) Of these 30 cases, 25 were notified on Fo. m A, 4 on Form C, and 1 on Form D.