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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
Hammersmith 1924
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1924
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TABULAR STATEMENT—ZYMOTIC DISEASES. The following table shows the number of cases that were reported as due to the undermentioned diseases during the years 1915 to 1924.
| Year. | Smallpox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria or Diphtheritic Croop. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Simple Continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Plague. | Chickenpox. a | Measles. b a | Whooping Cough, a | Cerebro-Spinal Fever. | Anthrax. | Glanders. | Hydrophobia. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Acute Polio-Myelitis. | Encephalitis Lcthargica. | Pneumonia. c | Malaria. c | Dysentery. c | Trench Fever. e | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | 0 | 405 | 163 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 369 | 619 | 227 | 18 | o | 0 | 0 | 23 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1946 |
| 1916 | 0 | 209 | 209 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 47 | 52 | 0 | 291 | 1418 | 195 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2428 |
| 1917 | 0 | 139 | 151 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 245 | 2153 | 199 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3018 | |
| 1918 | 0 | 177 | 146 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 492 | 1664 | 327 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2914 | |
| 1919 | 1 | 185 | 238 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 74 | 0 | 188 | 786 | 150 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 8 | 3 | 141 | 95 | 3 | 0 | 1927 | |
| 1920 | 0 | 726 | 380 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 57 | 0 | 168 | 763 | 225 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 6 | 4 | 165 | 20 | 9 | 1 | 2610 |
| 1921 | 0 | 1358 | 443 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 193 | 38 | 101 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 3 | 5 | 151 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2415 |
| 1922 | 0 | 496 | 440 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 224 | 1284 | 357 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 1 | 154 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3062 | ||
| 1923 | 0 | 245 | 233 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 363 | 347 | 136 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 4 | 6 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1507 | ||||
| 1924 | 0 | 243 | 267 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 311 | 1361 | 297 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 13 | 154 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2729 | ||
| Average for 10 years. | 0 | 418 | 267 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 284 | 1043 | 221 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 4 | 3 | 85 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 2455 |
a Not Notifiable.
b Notifiable during the years 1916—1919.
c Notifiable from 1st March, 1919.