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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
Hampstead 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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12. Infectious Diseases.
| Disease. | Number of cases notified during the year. | Number of cases visited by officers of the Council. | Number of cases for whom home nursing was provided by the Council. | Number of cases removed to hospitals. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) Ophthalmia Neonatorum | *16 | 10 | 7 | 9 |
| (2) Pemphigus Neonatorum | Not notifiable | Nil | Nil | Nil |
| (3) Puerperal fever | 1 | 1 | Nil | 1 |
| (4) Puerperal pyrexia | 17 | |||
| (5) Measles and german measles (in children under 5 years of age) | German Measles is not notifiable. Measles is compulsorily notifiable. | |||
| 386 | 348 | 58 | 65 | |
| (6) Whooping Cough (ditto) | Not notifiable | 77 | 6 | 17 |
| (7) Epidemic Diarrhoea (ditto) | Not notifiable | Nil | Nil | Nil |
| (8) Poliomyelitis (ditto) | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil |
* Vision unimpaired, 16.
13. Home Nursing.
(a) Number of nurses employed at the end of the year for the
nursing of expectant mothers and children under 5 yeari
of age, maternity nursing, or the nursing of puerperal
fever:—
(i) by the Council:—Nil.
(ii) by Voluntary Associations:—15 employed by two
Local District Nursing Associations. (12 included
in 16 (b) (iii) below.)
(b) Total number of cases attended during the year by these
nurses:—379. (Of this number the Borough Council paid
to the District Nursing Associations for the nursing of 54
maternity cases and 73 cases of infectious illnesses in
children under 5 years of age.)