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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    43 report that at the time of my writing this report the London County Council has under consideration the question of bringing measles under certain of the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891. SCARLET FEVER. Three hundred and forty-nine cases were reported as due to scarlet fever, against 343 in the previous year. Two hundred and seventy-two cases reported last year were isolated at Isolation Hospitals, and 77 cases were treated at the homes of the patients. The mortality rate on the cases reported was only 2.0 per cent. DIPHTHERIA AND DIPHTHERITIC MEMBRANOUS CROUP. One hundred and seventy-two cases were reported as due to diphtheria or diphtheritic membranous croup, against 227 cases in the previous year. One hundred and eighteen cases reported last year were treated at the Isolation Hospitals, and 53 at the homes of the patients. Twenty-three deaths were registered. The mortality rate on the cases reported in the Borough was 13'5 per cent. WHOOPING COUGH. Seventy-eight cases were reported as due to whooping cough, against 207 cases in the previous year. All of the cases reported last year were treated at home. Twenty-live were not reported until after death. Twenty-five deaths were registered. As this is not a notifiable disease it is of no use my giving the mortality rate on the cases reported, as doubtless a very large number of cases occurred which ware not known of in your Public Health Department. ENTERIC FEVER. Forty-nine cases were reported as due to enteric fever, against 77 in the previous year. Twenty of the cases