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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 1931

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]

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Treatment and Nursing of Children under School Age.
—The Council accepted financial responsibility for treatment
at the School Clinic of children under five years of
age. During the year the cases dealt with were as
follows:—
Operation for Tonsils and Adenoids —
Minor Ailments 16
Dental Treatment 1
Total 17
In addition arrangements were made, as before, with
the Hammersmith District Nursing Association for the
services of a nurse when required, to ensure adequate
attention in cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Pneumonia
and Measles.
Infectious Diseases of Mothers and Children
Under Five Years of Age.

Table: Statistics showing the incidence of all infectious diseases during the year are included in the general report, but in so far as they relate particularly to diseases of parturient women and children under five years of age, are tabulated below:—

Statistics showing the incidence of all infectious diseases during the year are included in the general report, but in so far as they relate particularly to diseases of parturient women and children under five years of age, are tabulated below:—

Disease.No. of Cases Notified.Previous Year.No. of Cases Visited.No. of Cases Nursed.No. of Cases Removed to Hospital.
Puerperal Fever595-4
Puerperal Pyrexia302430124
Ophthalmia Neonatorum12141227
Epidemic Diarrhæa*1919---
Measles & German Measles (under 5)*63555631424
Whooping Cough (under 5)†12992129-49
Poliomyelitis (under 5)—1———

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* Summer Diarrhœa.—As this is not a notifiable disease the figures
available are those of deaths which were registered as having been
due to this cause,
† Not notifiable diseases.