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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 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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Arrangements continued for the authentication by the Medical Officer of Health of the signatures of doctors on certificates of vaccination and inoculation for travellers from this country going abroad, as required by the International Sanitary Regulations. During the year ending December, 1968, over 3,000 vaccination certificates were dealt with.
| Disease | NOTIFICATIONS | Total cases notified | Cases removed to hospital | Deaths | Corrected figures | Non-resident cases | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-1 year | 1-2 years | 2-5 years | 5-15 years | 15-25 years | 25-45 years | 45-65 years | 65+ years | ||||||
| Measles (excluding rubelia) | 24 | 66 | 230 | 165 | 6 | 5 | - | - | 496 | 13 | - | 496 | 5 |
| Dysentery | 3 | 5 | 14 | 20 | 7 | 9 | 4 | - | 62 | 16 | - | 62 | 5 |
| Scarlet Fever | 3 | 2 | 25 | 39 | 6 | 2 | - | - | 77 | 2 | - | 77 | 1 |
| Whooping Cough | 7 | 13 | 34 | 27 | 3 | 3 | - | 87 | 1 | - | 87 | - | |
| Infective Jaundice | - | - | 2 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 1 | - | 35 | 16 | - | 35 | 3 |
| Pneumonia | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | 7 | - | - | 7 | - |
| Tetanus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Acute meningitis | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 7 | 5 | - | 7 | 1 |
| Acute encephalitis | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 3 | - | 6 | - |
| Acute poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - |
| " " (Non-paralytic) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | 13 | 10 | - | - | 23 | 19 | 23 | 13 | |
| Paratyphoid fever | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 6 | 4 | - | 6 | 1 |
| Typhoid fever | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 4 | 4 | - | 4 | 4 |
| Food poisoning | 2 | - | 3 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 35 | 15 | 1 | 35 | 3 |
| Tuberculosis - Respiratory | 1 | - | 8 | 6 | 17 | 27 | 23 | 8 | 90 | 47 | 9 | 90 | 6 |
| " - Other | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 13 | - | - | 16 | 7 | 3 | 16 | - |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Malaria | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — |
| TOTALS | 46 | 86 | 317 | 275 | 87 | 95 | 35 | 13 | 954 | 153 | 13 | 954 | 43 |