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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
Chiswick 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chiswick]
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Notifications.
These amounted to 377, an increase of 90 on the
previous year, due in a great measure to the larger
number of cases of phthisis and chicken-pox. I
append a table showing their headings for the last
and the three preceding years:—
1911—
Small-pox 0
Cholera 0
Diphtheria (including Membranous
Croup) 41
Erysipelas 40
Scarlet Fever 97
Typhus „ 0
Enteric „ 15
Continued Fever 0
Puerperal Fever I
Phthisis, under Tuberculosis
Regulations 1908 11
Do. under do., 1911 32
Others 29
Chicken-pox (Varicella) 111
Total 377
1910—
Scarlet Fever 125
Diphtheria 58
Enteric Fever 4
Erysipelas 41
Phthisis (Voluntary) 39
„ under Regulations,
1908 19
Total 286