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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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TABULAR STATEMENT—ZYMOTIC DISEASES. The following table shows the number of cases that were reported as due to the undermentioned diseases during the years 1922 to 1931.
| Year. | Smallpox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria or Diphtheritic Croup. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Simple Continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Puerperal Pyrexia, d | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Plague. | Chicken pox. f | Measles, b a | Whooping Cough, a | Cerebro-Spinal Fever. | Anthrax. | Gland rs. | Hydrophobia. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Acute Polio-Myelitis. | Encephalitis Lethargica. | Pneumonia, c | Malaria, c | Dysentery, c | Trench Fever.e | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 0 | 496 | 440 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 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 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 363 | 347 | 136 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 4 | 6 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1507 |
| 1924 | 0 | 243 | 267 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 311 | 1361 | 297 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 13 | 154 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2729 |
| 1925 | 0 | 290 | 208 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 402 | 658 | 573 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 9 | 142 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2378 |
| 1926 | 0 | 276 | 254 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 290 | 712 | 148 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 4 | 102 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1866 |
| 1927 | 0 | 312 | 368 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 22 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 269 | 60 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 145 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1343 1758 |
| 1928 | 0 | 337 | 380 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 18 | 0 | 52 | 0 | 114 | 631 | 45 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 3 | 3 | 130 | 5 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1929 | 0 | 409 | 249 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 74 | 0 | 87 | 237 | 113 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 232 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1452 |
| 1930 | 21 | 498 | 384 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 26 | 0 | 63 | 0 | 432 | 1486 | 206 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 166 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3320 |
| 1931 | 49 | 280 | 228 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 30 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 707 | 178 | 264 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 141 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1957 |
| Average for 10 years. | 7 | 339 | 301 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 46 | 0 | 320 | 695 | 222 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 5 | 145 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2137 |
a Not .Notifiable.
b Notifiable during the vears 1916—1919.
e Notifiable from 1st March 1919 to 31/12/1927.
c Notifiable from 1st March. 1919.
d Notifiable from 1st October, 1926.
f Notifiable from 2nd March, 1931.