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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

Hampstead 1914

Report for the year 1914 of the Medical Officer of Health

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were notified in other districts. When these deaths are included it
will be found that the death-rate per 1000 population was 0.03; 12
patients, or 75 per cent. of the total cases notified, were removed to
hospital.
Fourteen specimens of blood from patients suspected to be suffering
from enteric fever were submitted by the doctors in attendance, for
bacteriological examination, eleven specimens proving positive and
three negative.

Table: The following table shows the number of cases occurring in the various wards.—

The following table shows the number of cases occurring in the various wards.—

Month.WARDS.Totals.
No. 1 (Town).No. 2 (Belsize).No. 3 (Adelaide).No. 4 (Central).No. 5 (West End).No. 6 (Kilburn).No. 7 (Priory).
January-3l-1--5
February-1---l-2
March--------
April--------
May-1---1-2
June---1l--2
July--------
August--------
September------11
October-----l-1
November1---l--2
December-1-----1
Totals16ll33116