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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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TABLE XLIV. COMPARISON OF PREVALENCE OF SICKNESS & DEATHS FROM NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES. (Rates calculated per 1,000 persons on the population estimated to to the middle of each year).
| Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheric Membranous Croup. | Enteric and Continued Fever. | Typhus Fever. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases. | Deaths. | Cases. | Deaths. | Cases. | Deaths. | Cases. | Deaths. | Cases. | Deaths. | Cases. | Deaths. | Cases. | Deaths. | |
| 1891 | – | – | 1.33 | 0.09 | 0.93 | 0.21 | 0.62 | 0.03 | – | – | – | 0.84 | 0.05 | |
| 1892 | 0.02 | – | 5.45 | 0.23 | 1.13 | 0.32 | 0.47 | – | – | – | – | 1.12 | 0.08 | |
| 1893 | 0.30 | 0.03 | 6.98 | 0.32 | 2.48 | 0.63 | 0.59 | 0.13 | 0.01 | – | 0.05 | – | 1.54 | 0.17 |
| 1894 | 0.38 | 0.03 | 5.07 | 0.32 | 3.26 | 0.99 | 0.39 | 0.05 | – | – | – | – | 1.09 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 0.02 | – | 3.12 | 0.20 | 3.57 | 0.70 | 0.57 | 0.10 | – | – | – | – | 0.89 | 0.05 |
| 1896 | 0.02 | – | 5.37 | 0.19 | 3.05 | 0.66 | 0.50 | 0.08 | – | – | 0.01 | – | 0.85 | 0.04 |
| 1897 | – | – | 6.34 | 0.23 | 3.24 | 0.52 | 0.45 | 0.10 | – | – | – | – | 1.12 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | – | – | 6.49 | 0.28 | 3.81 | 0.49 | 0.58 | 0.14 | – | – | – | – | 0.97 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 0.01 | – | 6.50 | 0.26 | 4.05 | 0.45 | 0.85 | 0.19 | – | – | 0.03 | – | 1.37 | 0.06 |
| 1900 | 0.07 | – | 4.05 | 0.17 | 4.77 | 0.49 | 0.67 | 0.14 | – | – | – | – | 1.15 | 0.09 |