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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TABULAR STATEMENT—ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The following table shows the number of cases that were reported as due to the undermentioned diseases during the years 1931 to 1940.
| Year. | Smallpox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria or Diphtheritic Croup. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Simple Continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Puerperal Pyrexia, d | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Plague. | Chickenpox. a | Measles, b | Whooping Cough, b | Cerebro-Spinal Fever. | Anthrax. | Glanders. | Hydrophobia. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Acute Polio-Myelitis. | Encephalitis Lethargica. | Pneumonia, e | Malaria, c | Dysentery, c | Trench Fever, e | Food Poisoning. / | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | 21 | 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 | 49 | 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 | 519 | 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 |
| 1931 | 0 | 335 | 130 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 21 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 293 | 1372 | 234 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 83 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 2557 |
| 1937 | 0 | 332 | 179 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 37 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 353 | 81 | 314 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 89 | 2 | 26 | 0 | 2 | 1495 |
| 1938 | 0 | 291 | 189 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 16 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 429 | 1859 | 166 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 115 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 5 | 3181 |
| 1939 | 0 | 125 | 104 | 0 | I | 0 | 0 | 6 | 32 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 188 | 33 | 736 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 96 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 3 | 1406 |
| 1940 | 0 | 71 | 43 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 31 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 46 | 172 | 18 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 48 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 525 |
| A verage for 10 years | 7 | 388 | 219 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 Li | 7 | 27 | 0 | 53 | 0 | 361 | 696 | 296 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 117 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 2211 |