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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Fulham 1900
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1900
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Certification of the Causes of Death.
Of the 2,847 deaths registered, 2,155 or 91.8 per cent, were
duly certified by registered medical practitioners, and 189 or 8.1
per cent, by the Coronor after inquest, only 3 or 0.13 per cent,
being uncertified.
Inquests.
Of the 189 held on parishioners, 152 were held in the parish,
and 37 outside.
Their ages were —
TABLE XXXIII.
| Under 5 | 71 |
| 5 to 65 | 93 |
| Over 65 | 25 |
| 189 |
The accidental deaths have been already classified, and those
due to natural causes may be classified as follows:—
TABLE XXXIV.
| Zymotic diseases | 4 |
| Respiratory | 22 |
| Tubercular | 8 |
| Circulatory | 36 |
| Convulsions and other diseases of the nervous system | 10 |
| Other diseases | 32 |
| 112 |
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Fulham Infirmary and Workhouse.
Although the two parishes, Fulham and Hammersmith, which
formerly constituted the Fulham Unions, are now separated for
poor law purposes, the poor of Hammersmith are still, by an
arrangement between the Boards of Guardians, received into this
institution.
In 1900, 527 deaths occurred in the Infirmary, and 22 in the
Workhouse. Of these, 308 were parishioners of Fulham and 241
belonged to Hammersmith and other parishes.