Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1932. TABLE IV.
Notifiable Disease | Number of cases Notified | Total cases notified in each Ward | Total Cases Removed to Hospital | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
At all Ages | ||||||||||||||||
Under 1 | 1 & under 5 Years | 5 & under 15 Years | 15 & under 25 Years | 25 & under 45 Years | 4 & under 65 Years | 65 and upwards | 8'th | Centre | North | |||||||
Ward _| | Ward 2 | Ward 3 | Ward ; 4 | Ward 5 | Ward ' 6 | W ard | ||||||||||
Smallpox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cholera (C) Plague (P) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 192 | 6 | 72 | 89 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 17 | 19 | 3 | 32 | 40 | 43 | 192 |
Erysipelas | 51 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 35 |
Scarlet Fever | 594 | 3 | 169 | 354 | ii | 2b | 5 | 67 | 76 | 114 | 31 | 85 | 171 | 50 | 576 | |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 4 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Relapsing Fever (R) Continued Fever (C) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 2 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 29 | .. | .. | .. | 15 | 14 | .. | .. | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 28 |
8 | 2 | 1 | .. | 1 | 3 | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | |
Polio-myelitis | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 19 | 19 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 4 | 4 | .. | 2 | 5 | .. | 10 |
Anthrax | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Pneumonia | 178 | 2 | 30 | 34 | 16 | 44 | 38 | 14 | 23 | 27 | 23 | 10 | 22 | 55 | 18 | 79 |
Malaria | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Dysentery | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
Food Poisoning | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Chickenpox | 405 | 15 | 73 | 296 | 16 | 5 | .. | ... | 34 | 25 | 37 | 14 | 144 | 130 | 21 | i3 |
TOTALS | 1487 | 52 | 349 | 777 | 101 | 124 | 58 | 26 | 180 | 165 | 214 | 62 | 303 | 415 | 148 | 949 |
Tuberculosis. | ||||||||||||||||
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 183 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 53 | 73 | 38 | 8 | 35 | 33 | 26 | 14 | 24 | 36 | 15 | |
Other forms of Tuberculosis . | 45 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 10 | .. | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 6 | 4 | |
TOTALS | 228 | 2 | 3 | 34 | 63 | 80 | 48 | 8 | 37 | 40 | 35 | 18 | 37 | 42 | 19 |
Deaths from the Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases.—
The total number of deaths of residents registered from
the seven principal zymotic diseases was 74 against 38 in
the previous year. The deaths of residents last year from
these diseases were equal to 48.2 per 1,000 of the total
deaths of residents registered and were at the rate of
0.5 deaths per 1,000 persons living.