Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1924
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previous year. There were also reported 1,969 cases of
infectious diseases that were not notifiable, against 840 in the
previous year; 1,361 of these were Measles, 297 Whooping
Cough, and 311 Chicken Pox.
TABLE IV
Notifiable Disease | Number of cases Notified | Total cases notified in 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 15 Years | 45 & under 65 Years | 65 and upwards | North | Centre | South | |||
Smallpox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cholera (C) Plague (P) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 267 | 83 | 149 | 15 | .. | 150 | 86 | 31 | 262 | |||
Erysipelas | 35 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 16 | 4 | 21 | 6 | 8 | 30 |
Scarlet Fever | 243 | 3 | 71 | 136 | 15 | .. | .. | 127 | 75 | 41 | 235 | |
Typh | ||||||||||||
Hnteric Fever | 6 | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
Relapsing Fever (R) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 12 | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 8 | .. | .. | 2 | |||
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 7 | 2 | .. | 2 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 4 | .. | 7 |
Polio-myelitis | 5 | .. | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 3 | |
Encephalitis Lethargica | 13 | .. | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | .. | 7 | 5 | 9 | ||
Opthalmia Neonatorum | 16 | 16 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 5 | ||
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 234 | .. | 4 | 25 | 56 | 95 | 48 | 6 | 123 | 81 | 30 | 56 |
Other forms of Tuberculosis | 62 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 10 | 11 | .. | 36 | 18 | 25 | ||
Anthrax | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Pneumonia | 154 | 2 | 31 | 19 | 12 | 41 | 36 | 13 | 83 | 46 | 25 | 55 |
Malaria | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. |
Dysentery | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Trench Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Totals | 1056 | 34 | 209 | 358 | 126 | 193 | 25 | 567 | 337 | 152 | 703 |
Deaths from the Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases.—The
total number of deaths of residents registered from the seven
principal zymotic diseases was 88, against 71 in the previous
year. The deaths of residents last year from these diseases
were equal to 53 per 1,000 of the total deaths of resident
registered and were at the rate of 0.7 deaths per 1,000 persons
living.
The following table shows the deaths of residents registered
from the seven principal zymotic diseases which occurred in
the ten years, 1915 to 1924.