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West Ham 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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Chief Zymotic Diseases.—The total deaths from the seven
principal Zymotic diseases numbered 589, making an annual Zymotic
death-rate of 1.98 per 1,000, the average Zymotic death-rate during
the previous five years being 2.15 per 1,000. In the following tables
I append particulars as far as possible relating to each disease
separately—both notifiable and non-notifiable epidemic diseases. In
the case of the latter, however, the reported cases are necessarily
inexact, as the numbers are chiefly obtained from the School
Attendance Officers, who are in many cases unable to verify by
medical certificate the nature of the illness alleged to be the cause of
absence from School.
| Disease. | Notified Cases. | Deaths. | Attack-rate per 1,000. | Death-rate per 1,000. | Average Attack- rate 5 years 1909-1913. | Average Death- rate 5 years 1909-1913. | Percentage of Deaths to Attacks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 1,061 | 14 | 3.57 | 0.04 | 3.14 | 0.05 | 1.3 |
| Diphtheria | 445 | 50 | 1.50 | 0.16 | 1.33 | 0.15 | 11.2 |
| Enteric Fever | 67 | 13 | 0.22 | 0.04 | 0.33 | 0.05 | 19.4 |
| Puerperal Fever | 13 | 4 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 30.7 |
| Erysipelas | 297 | 14 | 1.00 | 0.04 | 0.94 | 0.03 | 4.7 |
| ContinuedFever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| *Poliomyelitis | 3 | 2 | 0.01 | 0.00 | — | — | 6.66 |
| *Cerebro Spinal Meningitis | 5 | 5 | 0.01 | 0.01 | — | — | 100.0 |
| †Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 36 | — | 0.12 | — | — | — | — |
* Notifiable for first time in 1912. † Notifiable for first time in 1914.
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