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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 1938
[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 | *15 | 8 | 3 | 12 |
| (2) Pemphigus Neonatorum | Not notifiable | Nil | Nil | Nil |
| (3) Puerperal fever | 4 | 2 | †1 | 3 |
| (4) Puerperal pyrexia | 20 | 8 | 1 | 19 |
| (5) Measles and german measles (in children under 5 years of age) | German Measles is not notifiable. Measles is compulsorily notifiable. | |||
| 399 | 253 | 51 | 55 | |
| (6) Whooping Cough (ditto) | 26 Notifiable from 1-10-38. | 26 | 2 | 5 |
| (7) Epidemic Diarrhœa (ditto) | Not notifiable | Nil | Nil | Nil |
| (8) Poliomyelitis (ditto) | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil |
*Visiion unimpaired, 13—(one case under treatment at the end of the year—one case
admitted to Hospital with Ophthalmia Neonatorum died in Hospital of Gastro-enteritis.)
† Subsequently removed to Hospital.
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:—14 employed by two
Local District Nursing Associations.
(b) Total number of cases attended during the year by these
nurses:-329.