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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 1936
[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 1927 to 1936.
| Year. | Smallpox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria or Diphtheritic Croup. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Simple Continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Puerperal Pyrexia. a | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Plague. | Chickenpox. a | Measles. b a | Whooping Cough. a | Cerebro-Spiual Fever. | Anthrax. | Glanders. | Hydrophobia. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Acute Polio-Myelitis. | Encephalitis Lethargica. | Pneumonia. c | Malaria. c | Dysentery. c | Trench Fever, e | Food Poisioning. f | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 0 | 312 | 368 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 22 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 269 | 60 | 83 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 145 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1343 |
| 1928 | 0 | 337 | 380 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 18 | 0 | 52 | 0 | 114 | 631 | 45 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 3 | 3 | 130 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1758 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 0 | 1957 |
| 1932 | 0 | 594 | 192 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 29 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 405 | 1588 | 330 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 178 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3405 |
| 1933 | 0 | 895 | 241 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 33 | 0 | 97 | 0 | 333 | 299 | 319 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 179 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 2445 |
| 1934 | 0 | 609 | 549 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 0 | 79 | 0 | 422 | 1334 | 272 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 154 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3467 |
| 1935 | 0 | 349 | 333 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 435 | 45 | 312 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 88 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 9 | 1678 |
| 1936 | 0 | 335 | 130 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 21 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 293 | 1372 | 234 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 83 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 2557 |
| Average for 10years | 7 | 461 | 305 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 24 | 0 | 59 | 0 | 350 | 723 | 218 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 150 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2338 |
a Not Notifiable. b Notifiable duiing the years 1916—1919. c Notifiable from 1st March, 1919. d Notifiable from 1st October, 1926.
e Notifiable from 1st March, 1919, to 31/12/1927. f Notifiable from 12th July, 1982.