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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 1927

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]

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was found necessary to arrange for a nurse to visit and attend
to the wants of (he patients. This was done by arrangement
with the Hammersmith District Nursing Association.
One hundred and thirty-nine deaths were registered.
From the above figures it may be assumed that a good many
cases have occurred, of which no information has been received
by your Public Health Department.
Malaria.—Two cases were reported, against no previous year.
Dysentery.—Three cases of Dysentery were reported
against no case in the previous year.
Trench Fever.—No case of Trench Fever was reported,
against no case in the previous year.
Influenza.—During the year fifty-one deaths from
Influenza occurred, as compared with twenty-three in the
previous year.

Table: Wrong Diagnosis.—Forty-five cases of infectious disease were removed to the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board and subsequently returned home in consequence of the patients being found not to be suffering from the disease stated on the certificates, or any other notifiable disease—

Wrong Diagnosis.—Forty-five cases of infectious disease were removed to the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board and subsequently returned home in consequence of the patients being found not to be suffering from the disease stated on the certificates, or any other notifiable disease—

Diphtheria10
Scarlet Fever7
Enteric Fever1
Total24

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Cleansing of Verminous Persons.—The Medicinal Baths in
Scotts Road, Shepherd's Bush, provide for the treatment of
cases of Scabies, Impetigo and the cleansing of verminous
persons, etc.