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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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TABULAR STATEMENT—ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The following table shows the number of cases that were reported as due to the undermentioned diseases during the years 1918 to 1927.
| Year. | Smallpox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria or Diphtheritic Croup. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Simple Continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Puerperal Pyrexia, d | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Plague. | Chickenpox. a | Measles, b a | Whooping Cough, a | Cerebro-Spinal Fever. | Anthrax. | Glanders. | Hydrophobia. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Acute Polio-Myelitis. | Encephalitis Lethargica. | Pneumonia, e | Malaria, e | Dysentery, c | Trench Fever, c | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 0 | 177 | 146 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 492 | 1664 | 327 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2914 |
| 1919 | 0 | 185 | 238 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 0 | 188 | 786 | 150 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 8 | 3 | 141 | 95 | 3 | 0 | 1927 |
| 1920 | 0 | 726 | 380 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 0 | 168 | 763 | 225 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 6 | 4 | 165 | 20 | 9 | 0 | 2610 |
| 1921 | 1 | 1358 | 443 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 193 | 38 | 101 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 3 | 5 | 151 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2415 |
| 1922 | 0 | 496 | 440 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 224 | 1284 | 357 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 1 | 154 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3062 |
| 1923 | 0 | 245 | 233 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 363 | 347 | 136 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 4 | 6 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1507 |
| 1924 | 0 | 243 | 267 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 311 | 1361 | 297 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 13 | 154 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2729 |
| 1925 | 0 | 290 | 208 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 402 | 658 | 573 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 9 | 142 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2378 |
| 1926 | 0 | 276 | 254 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 290 | 712 | 148 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 4 | 102 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1866 |
| 1927 | 0 | 312 | 368 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 22 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 269 | 60 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 145 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1343 |
| Average, for 10 years. | 0 | 431 | 297 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 290 | 767 | 240 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 3 | 5 | 124 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 2275 |
a Not Notifiable. b Notifiable during the years 1916—1919. c Notifiable from 1st March, 1919. d Notifiable from 1st October, 1926.