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Hammersmith 1923
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1923
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in the Borough, against 1,197 in the previous year. The
number of cases of Tuberculosis notified was 274 against 295 in
the previous year. There were also reported 840 cases of
infectious diseases that were not notifiable, against 1,865 in the
previous year; 347 of these were Measles, 136 Whooping
Cough, and 363 Chicken Pox.
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total cases notifiedin each locality (e.g. Parish or ward) of the District | Total Cases Removed to Hospital. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages | At Ages.—Years. | |||||||||||
| Under 1 | 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 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Cholera (C) Plague (P) | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Diphtheria (including | ||||||||||||
| Membranous Croup) | 233 | 8 | 65 | 132 | 14 | 14 | | | 93 | 114 | 26 | 226 |
| Erysipelas | 31 | 2 | | 5 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 19 |
| Scarlet Fever | 245 | 4 | 82 | 127 | 19 | 13 | | | 109 | 96 | 40 | 240 |
| Typhus Fever | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Enteric Fever | 14 | | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | | 9 | 2 | 3 | 12 |
| Relapsing Fever (R) Continued Fever (C) | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Puerperal Fever | | | | 5 | 8 | | | 4 | 8 | 1 | 13 | |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 3 | 1 | 1 | | | 1 | | | 3 | | | 3 |
| Polio-myelitift | 4 | | 3 | | 1 | | | | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 6 | | | | 1 | 4 | | 4 | 2 | | 6 | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 28 | 28 | | | | | | | 13 | 9 | 6 | 8 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 211 | | 1 | 15 | 52 | 92 | 45 | 6 | 105 | 73 | 33 | 59 |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 63 | 3 | 13 | 23 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 32 | 27 | 4 | 18 |
| Anthrax | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Pneumonia | 84 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 22 | 28 | 2 | 32 | 33 | 19 | 27 |
| Malaria | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Dysentery | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Trench Fever | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Totals | 935 | 50 | 172 | 314 | 123 | 174 | 89 | 13 | 422 | 375 | 138 | 634 |
Deaths from the Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases.—The
total number of deaths of residents registered from the seven
principal zymotic diseases was 71, against 158 in the previous
year. The deaths of residents last year from these diseases
were equal to 48 per 1,000 of the total deaths of resident
registered and were at the rate of 0.5 deaths per 1,000 persons