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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 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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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 :
| Disease. | No. of Cases Notified. | Previous Year. | No. of Cases Visited. | No. of Cases Nursed. | No. of Cases Removed to Hospital. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerperal Fever | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | 2 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia Ophthalmia | 19 | 22 | 14 | — | 19 |
| Neonatorum Epidemic | 11 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 8 |
| Diarrhcea* | 30 | 30 | — | 1 | — |
| Measles & German Measles (under 5)+ | 13 | 628 | 13 | — | 8 |
| Whooping Cough (under 5)t | 167 | 163 | 167 | 1 | 59 |
| Poliomyelitis (under 5) | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | 2 |
* Summer Diarrhcea.—As this is not a notifiable disease the figures
available are those of deaths which were registered as having been
Jue to this cause.
I Not notifiable diseases
| Cases. | Vision unimpaired. | Vision Impaired. | Total Blindness. | Removed from Dis trict. | Still under Treatment. | Deaths. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notified. | Treated. | |||||||
| At Home. | In Hospital. | |||||||
| 30.1.35 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9.3.35 | _ | i | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1.4.35 | — | i | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 18.6.35 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 22.6.35 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 28.6.35 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| 1.11.35 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15.11.35 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | |
| 25.11.35 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| 12.12.35 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 21.12.35 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| 2 | 9 | 8 | — | — | 2 | 1 | — | |
All notified cases of diseases of parturient women and
children under five years of age are visited immediately,
and arrangements made for the attendance of a nurse
where required.