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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Fees paid to medical practitioners. £ s. d.
1,170 at 10s 585 0 0
7 at 6s. 8d. 2 6 8
10 at 3b. 4d. 1 18 4
18 at 2s. 6d 2 5 0
£591 5 0
Scarlet Fever.—Three hundred and forty-nine cases
were notified as due to Scarlet Fever, against six hundred
and nine in the previous year. Three hundred and thirtysix
cases were treated at the Isolation Hospitals, and
thirteen at the homes of the patients. Three deaths were
registered. The mortality rate was 0.9 per cent.
Enteric Fever.—Five cases were reported as due to
Enteric Fever, against one case in the previous year. The
cases were treated in various hospitals. It was not possible
to trace the source of infection.
Erysipelas.—Fifty cases were reported as due to
Erysipelas, against seventy-nine cases in the previous year.
Twenty cases were treated at the homes of the patients,
and thirty in various hospitals.
Typhus Fever.—No case was reported as due to
I'yphus Fever, against no case in the previous year.