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Hammersmith 1916
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1916
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years, and the death rate from them was 0.88 per 1,000
of the estimated civilian population.
Sickness from Notifiable Infectious Diseases.—The
following table gives the number of cases of infectious
diseases notified in the borough, together with the
number removed to hospital:—
TABLE IV. Gases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1916.
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total cases noti-fied in e .ch Locality (e.g. Parish or Ward) of the District. | Total Cases Re-moved to Hospital. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Ages—Years. | ||||||||||||
| At all Ages | Under1 | 1 & under 5 Years. | 5 & under 15 Years. | 15 & under 25 Years. | 25 & under 45 Years. | 45 & under 65 Years. | 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) | 209 | 3 | 63 | 117 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 97 | 73 | 39 | 200 |
| Erysipelas | 47 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 7 | 22 | 11 | 14 | 13 |
| Scarlet Fever | 209 | 2 | 45 | 112 | 43 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 108 | 81 | 20 | 196 |
| Typhus Fever | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Enteric Fever | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Kelapsing Fever (R) Continued Fever (C) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Puerperal Fever | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Polio-myelitis | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 40 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 15 | 6 | 0 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 283 | 0 | 6 | 20 | 63 | 123 | 60 | 11 | 151 | 88 | 44 | 87 |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 57 | 4 | 9 | 26 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 17 | 11 | 24 |
| Me.isles | 1418 | 51 | 483 | 681 | 122 | 73 | 7 | 1 | 732 | 487 | 199 | 36 |
| Totals | 2282 | 103 | 612 | 964 | 262 | 236 | 86 | 19 | 1167 | 780 | 335 | 569 |
Small-pox.—No case of small-pox has occurred in
Hammersmith since 1903.
Scarlet Fever.—209 cases were notified against 905
in 1914 and 405 in 1915, and there were four deaths.
Diphtheria.—209 cases wer.e reported compared
with 163 in the previous year, and the deaths numbered
15, giving a case fatality of 7.4 per cent.