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Hampstead 1937
[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 | *22 | 13 | 5 | 17 |
| (2) Pemphigus Neonatorum | Not notifiable | Nil | Nil | Nil |
| (3) Puerperal fever | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| (4) Puerperal pyrexia | 19 | 12 | 1 | 17 |
| (5) Measles and german measles (in children under 5 years of age) | German Measles is not notifiable. Measles is compulsorily notifiable. | |||
| 39 | 34 | 5 | 8 | |
| (6) Whooping Cough (ditto) | Not notifiable | 47 | 1 | 12 |
| (7) Epidemic Diarrhœa (ditto) | Not notifiable | Nil | Nil | Nil |
| (8) Poliomyelitis (ditto) | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil |
*Vision unimpaired, 22.
13. Home Nursing.
(a) Number of nurses employed at the end of the year for the
nursing of expectant mothers and children under 5 years
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.
(b) Total number of cases attended during the year by these
nurses:—378. (Of this number the Borough Council paid
the District Nursing Associations for the nursing of 56
expectant mothers, 68 maternity cases and 165 cases of
infectious illness, bronchitis, influenza, and minor ailments,
etc., of children under 5 years of age.)