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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 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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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 Fever | 12 | 14 | 12 | — | 12 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 13 | 31 | 13 | — | 13 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 8 | 5 | 8 | — | 8 |
| Epidemic Diarrhœa* | 7 | 8 | — | — | — |
| Measles and German Measles (under 5) | 193 | 65 | 193 | 4 | 66 |
| Whooping Cough (under 5) | 146 | 15 | 146 | 6 | 72 |
| Poliomyelitis (under 5) | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 |
* Summer Diarrhcea.—As this is not a notifiable disease the figures
available are those of deaths which were registered as having been due to
this cause.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—The number of cases reported was eight against five in the previous year. The analysis of the final reports received is as follows :—
| Cases. | Vision unimpaired. | VisionImpaired. | Total Blindness. | Removed from District. | Still under Treatment. | Deaths. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notified. | Treated. | |||||||
| At Home. | In Hospital. | |||||||
| 15.5.41 | — | 1 | Yes | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15.5.41 | — | 1 | „ | — | — | — | — | — |
| 16.5.41 | — | 1 | „ | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3.7.41 | — | 1 | „ | — | — | — | — | — |
| 11.7.41 | — | 1 | „ | — | — | — | — | — |
| 25.8.41 | — | 1 | „ | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15.9.41 | — | 1 | „ | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5.11.41 | — | 1 | „ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Totals | — | 8 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — |