Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1902.

  • Hammersmith (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1903]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1902. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    11 an each street, in 3 streets there were 3 cases in each street, in 5 streets there were 2 cases in each street, in 37 streets there was 1 case in each street, in 4 houses there were 4 cases in each house, in 3 houses there were 3 cases in each house, in 7 houses there were '2 cases in each house, and 53 cases occurred singly in different houses. Up to the 3rd of January, 1903, l4 deaths were registered; this gives a mortality rate on the cases re ported of 15.2 per cent. From the information obtained it is clearly demonstrated that, allowing for the usual 'period of incubation in the disease, not one single in habitant of the borough contracted the complaint from any one of the ninety-two cases that occurred, from the moment that information of the existence of a case was obtained by myself. This fact cannot be otherwise than highly gratifying to your Council and highly satisfactory to the inhabitants of the borough. The following is the in formation obtained in reference to the cases. They were all specially reported upounby me to the Public Health •Committee:— No. I.—Case of H— C—, age 21, no occupation, residing at Han over Cottages. She was first taken ill on December 25th: A rash appeared on December 27th. The case was diag nosed by the private medical attendant on December 29th, and she was removed the same day by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to Rotherhithe. She had resided at the house for some months. There had been no previous case of illness lately at the house, but it was stated that the patient was visited by her brother and by the man J— P— about a fortnight before. J— P— was removed on December 16th from R— H—, and was then in about the fourth day of the illness. It is probable, there fore, that J— P— yisited this house while he was suffering from the complaint on or about December 12th. It was stated that he visited the house on December 15th with H— C—, the brother of this patient. No. 2.—Case of E— C—, age 32, a draughtsman employed at --, Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, and residing at Percy Road, Shepherd's Bush. He was first taken ill on December 24th. A rash appeared on December 29th: The case was diagnosed by the patient's private medical attendant on December 31st, and he was removed the