Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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Zymotic Diseases.—The total deaths from the seven
principal Zymotic diseases numbered 738, making an annual Zymotic
death rate of 2.4 per 1,000, the average Zymotic death-rate during
the previous ten years being 3.57 per 1,000. In the following tables 1
append particulars, so far as possible, relating to each disease separately
—both notifiable and non-notifiable epidemic diseases. In the latter
cases, however, the returns of cases being obtained from the School
Attendance Officers are necessarily inexact.
Disease. | Notified Cases. | Deaths. | Attack rate per 1,000. | Death- rate per 1,000. | Average Attack- rate 10 vears 1897-1906. | Average Death-rate, lOyears, 1897-1906. | Percentage of Deaths to Attacks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-pox | 1 | — | - | — | 0.33 | 0.05 | — |
Scarlet Fever | 1,777 | 55 | 5.87 | 0.18 | 3.96 | 010 | 2% |
Diphtheria | 623 | 80 | 2.05 | 0.26 | 3.29 | 0.44 | 12% |
Enteric Fever | 119 | 16 | 0.39 | 0.05 | 1.35 | 0.22 | 13% |
Puerperal Fever | 9 | 5 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0 03 | 55% |
Erysipelas | 275 | 14 | 0.90 | 0.04 | 0.46 | 0.04 | 5% |
Continued Fever | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Disease. | Reported cases. | Deaths. | Death-rate per 1,000. | Average death-rate 10 years, 1897-1906. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Diarrhoea | _ | 234 | 0.77 | 1.52 |
Measles | 2,563 | 157 | 0.51 | 0.51 |
Whooping Cough | 314 | 163 | 0.53 | 0.43 |
Chicken-pox | 660 | — | —. | — |
Mumps | 5 | — | — | — |
Ringworm | 2 | — | — | — |
Scabies | 6 | — | — | — |