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Hammersmith 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith]
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in the proportion of 278 deaths per 1,000 illegitimate
births against 96 per 1,000 among children born in
wedlock.
In the Annual Report for 1916 an error was made
with regard to the death-rate for that year of illegitimate
infants which was calculated on the number of illegitimate
children born in the borough. If the illegitimates born
in the lying-in institutions outside the borough in that
year are included, the proportion of illegitimate deaths
to births will be reduced from 538 to 222 per 1,000.
Deaths from Epidemic Diseases.—To the seven
principal epidemic diseases 114 deaths were ascribed,
giving a death rate of 0.99 per 1,000, against 0.88 per
1,000 in 1916.
Sickness from Notifiable Infectious Diseases.—The
following table gives the number of cases of infectious
diseases notified in the borough, together with the.
number removed to hospital :—
TABLE IV.
Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1917.
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total cases notified in each Localily (e.g. Parish or Ward) of the District. | Total Cases Removed to Hospital. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | |||||||||||
| Under 1 | 1 & under 5 Years. | 5 & under 15 Years. | 15 & under 25 Years. | 25 & under 45 Years. | 45 & under 65 Years. | 65 and upwards | North | Centre | South | |||
| Small-pox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cholera (C) Plague (P) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 151 | 2 | 49 | 81 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 77 | 58 | 16 | 139 |
| Erysipelas | 52 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 12 | 22 | 22 | 8 | 13 |
| Scarlet Fever | 139 | 2 | 30 | 81 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 64 | 56 | 19 | 125 |
| Typhus Fever | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | O | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Enteric Fever | 20 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 17 |
| Relapsing Fever (R) | ||||||||||||
| Continued Fever(C) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Puerperal Fever | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 10 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Polio-myelitis | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 44 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 19 | 9 | 0 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 315 | 5 | 6 | 42 | 64 | 155 | 55 | 8 | 172 | 124 | 39 | 66 |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 82 | 5 | 13 | 39 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 41 | 28 | 13 | 10 |
| Measles & German Measles | 2153 | 93 | 829 | 948 | 170 | 100 | 13 | 0 | 1071 | 861 | 221 | 45 |
| Totals | 2991 | 55 | 934 | 1207 | 281 | 298 | 95 | 21 | 1477 | 1179 | 335 | 423 |