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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 1933

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

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Table: continued at the School Clinics. During the year the cases dealt with were as follows :—.

continued at the School Clinics. During the year the cases dealt with were as follows :—.

Operation for Tonsils and Adenoids1
Minor Ailments26
Dental Treatment—
Total27

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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.

Table: Infectious Diseases of Mothers and Children Under Five Years of Age.

Infectious Diseases of Mothers and Children Under Five Years of Age.

Disease.No. of Cases Notified.Previous Year.No. of Cases Visited.No. of Cases Nursed.No. of Cases Removed to Hospital.
Puerperal Fever926_7
Puerperal Pyrexia332918—28
Ophthalmia Neonatorum10191072
Epidemic Diarrhœa*2026-6-
Measles & German Measles (under 5)†8371883236
Whooping Cough (under 5)†167178167453
Poliomyelitis (under 5)212—2

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