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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
Hampton 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampton]
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TABLE IT.
| Notifiable disease. | Number of cases notified. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages. | At ages | |||||||
| Under 1 year. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | ||
| Diphtheria | 24 | - | 5 | 15 | 4 | - | - | - |
| Scarlet fever | 18 | — | 4 | 9 | 3 | 2 | - | — |
| Enteric fever | 3 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Puerperal fever | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| Erysipelas | 6 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | — |
| Phthisis, under Tuberculosis Regutions, 1911 | 4 | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | - | — |
| Totals | 56 | 9 | 26 | 9 | 9 | 3 | - | |
Diphtheria.
Nineteen of the cases notified as Diphtheria were
treated at the Isolation Hospital and one at the South
Western Hospital, Fulham.
Two of these patients, aged 4 and 5 years respectively,
were discharged after a few days' treatment, the illness
being other than Diphtheria.
One other patient, aged 21, was discharged in three
days, and the notification was withdrawn.
This latter case is not included in the above table.
Twenty of the cases notified occurred in the first
quarter of the year, six of which were in one house and
three in another.