Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1903.

  • Hammersmith (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
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[1904]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1903. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    139 on the subject prevent even Medical Officers of Health from looking at the question in an unprejudiced light. The seriousness of the evil to be grappled with must eventually demand that the question will be looked at in an unprejudiced light. There was a time, not so far back, when it was not realised that the facts in reference to small.pox demanded that the disease should be properly dealth with. I can remember a medical man making a formal complaint against me to the magistrate at the Hammersmith Police Court because I had removed a patient of his suffering from small.pox and had disinfected the premises. SCARLET FEVER. Three hundred and fourteen cases were reported as due to scarlet fever, against 349 in the previous year. Two hundred and fifty six cases reported last year were isolated at Isolation Hospitals, and 58 cases were treated at the homes of the patients. Eight deaths were registered. The mortality rate on the cases reported in the Borough was only 2.5 per cent. DIPHTHERIA AND DIPHTHERITIC MEMBRANOUS CROUP. One hundred and ninety cases were reported as due to diphtheria or diphtheritic membranous croup, against 172 cases in the previous year. One hundred and nineteen reported last year were treated at the Isolation Hospitals, and 41 at the homes of the patients. Nineteen deaths were registered. The mortality rate on the cases reported in the Borough was 11.9 per cent. WHOOPING COUGH. One hundred and thirty two cases were reported as due to whooping cough, against 78 cases in the previous year. All of the cases reported last year were treated