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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 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]
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Cases of Infectious Diseases notified durtng the Year 1920.
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward of the Borough. | Total cases removed to Hospital. | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Ages—Years. | Barons Court Ward. | Lillie Ward. | Walham Ward. | Margravine Ward. | Munster Ward. | Hurlingham Ward. | Sands End Ward. | Town Ward. | |||||||||
| At all Ages. | Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | ||||||||||
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera (C), Plague (P) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 623 | 9 | 129 | 384 | 51 | 41 | 9 | - | 28 | 79 | 53 | 94 | 182 | 27 | 125 | 35 | 561 |
| Erysipelas | 102 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 28 | 33 | 16 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 24 | 29 | - | 14 | 13 | 55 |
| Scarlet Fever | 930 | 4 | 141 | 651 | 91 | 39 | 4 | - | 61 | 165 | 47 | 149 | 256 | 43 | 149 | 60 | 856 |
| Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric Fever | 25 | - | - | 5 | 7 | 11 | 2 | - | 3 | 4 | - | 7 | 5 | - | 4 | 2 | 19 |
| Relapsing Fever (R) Continued Fever (C) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Fever | 32 | - | - | - | 9 | 22 | 1 | - | - | 7 | 2 | 2 | 13 | - | 6 | 2 | 30 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 5 | 3 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | l | - | 5 |
| Polio-myelitis | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 40 | 40 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 13 | - | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 282 | 1 | 6 | 31 | 67 | 119 | 50 | 8 | 19 | 51 | 29 | 35 | 68 | 15 | 43 | 22 | - |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 93 | 5 | 13 | 44 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 31 | 3 | 20 | 4 | - |
| Measles | 942 | 53 | 438 | 429 | 13 | 7 | 2 | - | 38 | 52 | 55 | 153 | 277 | 33 | 285 | 49 | 26 |
| German Measles | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| F.ncephaliti Lethargica | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | — | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 114 |
| Pneumonia | 198 | 7 | 22 | 32 | 30 | 64 | 35 | 8 | 11 | 31 | 14 | 31 | 53 | 3 | 49 | 15 | 18 |
| Diarrhoea | 51 | 36 | 15 | — | — | - | - | - | 1 | 12 | 3 | 11 | 19 | - | 1 | 4 | - |
| Malaria | 20 | - | — | - | 6 | 12 | 2 | — | 2 | 5 | 2 | - | 8 | - | 2 | 1 | - |
| Dysentery | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Trench Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Totals | 3,347 | 162 | 766 | 1,586 | 303 | 353 | 143 | 34 | 169 | 444 | 224 | 525 | 955 | 125 | 694 | 211 | 1693 |