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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 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABULAR STATEMENT— ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The following table shows the number of cases that were reported as due to the undermentioned 20 zymotic diseases during the years 1903 to 1912.
| Year. | Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria or Diphtheritic Croup. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Simple continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | English Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Plague. | Chicken-pox* | Measles* | Whooping Cough.* | Cerebro-Spinal Fever. | Anthrax. | Glanders. | Hydrophobia. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Acute Polio-Myelitis. | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903 | 6 | 314 | 160 | 0 | 58 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 108 | 0 | 104 | 137 | 132 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1026 |
| 1904 | 0 | 283 | 201 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 120 | 0 | 283 | 742 | 102 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1781 |
| 1905 | 0 | 360 | 237 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 125 | 0 | 219 | 417 | 286 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1698 |
| 1906 | 0 | 439 | 270 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 125 | 0 | 68 | 627 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1629 |
| 1907 | 0 | 577 | 207 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 76 | 0 | 198 | 538 | 337 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1984 |
| 1908 | 0 | 383 | 199 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 65 | 0 | 113 | 161 | 156 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1113 |
| 1909 | 0 | 380 | 188 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 75 | 0 | 140 | 847 | 281 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1943 |
| 1910 | 0 | 340 | 161 | 0 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 63 | 0 | 228 | 484 | 200 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521 |
| 1911 | 0 | 236 | 195 | 1 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 97 | 0 | 304 | 554 | 250 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 1689 |
| 1912 | 0 | 335 | 177 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 99 | 0 | 363 | 487 | 208 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 1708 |
| Av'rge in last 10 yrs. | 1 | 365 | 200 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 95 | 0 | 202 | 499 | 201 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1609 |
* Not a notifiable disease.
COMPULSORY NOTIFICATION OF
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The London County Council made an order on
27th February, 1912, that from and including 13th
March, 1912, section 55 of the Public Health (London),
Act, 1891, with respect to the notification of Infectious
Diseases, should apply to the diseases known as Acute
Polio-Myelitis, or Acute Polio-Encephalitis and Cerebrospinal
Fever (Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis).