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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
West Ham 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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the number removed to hospitals and the total number of deaths from each disease:—
| DISEASE. | Cases Notified. | Removed to Hospital. | Total Deaths. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | |
| Smallpox | — | 3 | 2 | — | _ | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | |
| Diphtheiia | 649 | 673 | 701 | 801 | 766 | 560 | 611 | 671 | 751 | 719 | 32 | 44 | 27 | 33 | 18 |
| Scarlet Fever | 1695 | 746 | 530 | 388 | 478 | 1119 | 592 | 412 | 320 | 412 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 6 |
| Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | 22 | 14 | 25 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Puerpural Fever | 8 | 12 | 16 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 8 |
| Pneumonia* | 209 | 293 | 198 | 419 | 433 | 75 | 72 | 66 | 158 | 130 | 398 | 659 | 119 | 494 | 355 |
| Cerebro Spinal Fever | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | |
| Acute Polio Myelitis | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Polio Encephalitis | 3 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Encephalitis I.ethargicaf | 10 | 2 | 6 | 26 | 14† | 7 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5† |
| Erysipelas | 165 | 153 | 138 | 177 | 215 | 19 | 32 | 17 | 32 | 58 | 13 | — | 4 | 8 | 6 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 61 | 34 | 31 | 24 | 34 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Malaria | 3 | 13 | — | 26 | 8 | - | - | — | 16 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | — | — | — | — | 1 | - | - | — | — | — | — | - | - | — | |
*Notification of this disease is confined to certain types of Pneumonia, and the figures given are liable to be very misleading,
e.g., in 1922, though only 293 cases were notified, no fewer than 659 deaths from Pneumonia(all forms) were registered.
† One of the 5 deaths during 1925 was one of the 26 cases notified in 1924, the remaining 4 cases were firstnotified in 1925.