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Hampstead 1921

Report for the year 1921 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year 1921.

NOTIFIABLE DISEASE.Number of cases notified.Total Cases Notified in each Ward.Total Cases removed to Hospital.
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.
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis, acute................................
Diphtheria40876625448276..3666111413712816360
Dysentery2......1........1......1..1
Encephalitis Lethargica, acute10....1243..34..21....6
Enteric Fever10....2431..131..32..6
Erysipelas25322536436134714
Malaria3......21..........2....12
Measles1758609764....11274533328285
Ophthalmia Neonatorum88............11....1231
Pneumonia541310111710212883311911
Polio-encephalitis................................
Polio-Myelitis, acute................................
Puerperal Fever3........3......1..11....3
Scarlet Fever37135023545353..497625374710829318
Small-pox................................
*Tuberculosis, Pulmonary103....4246114..1415171012181788
*Tuberculosis, Non-Pulmonary5524268123..74336221024
Totals12273218563115617046713721211178248327114829

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 Tuberculosis when removed were sent to institutions in various parts of the country.
* These figures relate only to cases notified for the first time in 1921.