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[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE II.
(Required by the Local Government Board to he used in the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health.)
Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year 1913.
TABLE II
(Required by the Local Goverment Board to be used in the Annual Report of the Medical officer of Health.) Cases of insfectious disease notified the year 1913.
NOTIFIABLE DISEASE. | Number of cases notified. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward. | Total Cases removed to Hospital. | |||||||||||||
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At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||||||
Under 1. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 45. | 45 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | Ward No. (Town). | Ward No. (Belsize). | Ward No (Adelaide). | Ward No. (Central). | Ward No. (West Enc | Ward No. (Kilburn). | Ward No. (Priory). | |||
Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cholera Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 116 | 1 | 35 | 49 | 17 | 13 | 1 | .. | 36 | 23 | 2 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 10 | 98 |
Erysipelas | 32 | .. | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
Scarlet Fever | 198 | 1 | 51 | 109 | 22 | 14 | 1 | .. | 19 | 17 | 22 | 18 | 33 | 78 | 11 | 159 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 14 | .. | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | .. | 3 | .. | .. | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
Relapsing Fever Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Polio-Myelitis | 4 | 1 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 |
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 244* | .. | 2 | 51 | 53 | 97 | 37 | 41 | 31 | 20 | 11 | 31 | 84 | 26 | 95* | |
Other forms of Tuberculosis | 56* | 2 | 9 | 22 | 6 | 11 | 3 | .. | 6 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 22* |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 9 | 9 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
Totals | 674 | 14 | 102 | 235 | 114 | 150 | 50 | 9 | 108 | 92 | 53 | 57 | 99 | 207 | 58 | 395 |
Isolation Hospitals are provided by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and residents of Hampstead suffering from infectious disease were chiefly
removed to the North-Western Fever Hospital, which is within the Borough, and is situate at Lawn Road, in No. 2 (Belsize) Ward.
Persons suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis were removed to institutions in various parts of the country, the largest numbers going into
Mount Vernon Hospital and Northwood, Northern Hospital, Winchmore Hill, Brompton Hospital andFrimley, Royal Sea Bathing Hospital,
Margate, Carshalton and Hampstead Workhouse Infirmary.
* These figures relate only to cases notified for the first time in 1913.
The cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis notified in Institutions were as follows: 9 in Ward 1, 1 in Ward 2, 2 in Ward 3, and 3 in Ward 7.