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Fulham 1893

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1893

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NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

Table: The following table gives the number of cases of infectious disease notified in Fulham since 1890, when compulsory notification came into force, excluding duplicate notifications:—

The following table gives the number of cases of infectious disease notified in Fulham since 1890, when compulsory notification came into force, excluding duplicate notifications:—

1890.1891.1892.1893.
Scarlatina286118517701
Diphtheria706996230
Membranous Croup23131520
Enteric Fever72514158
Continued Fever---6
Typhus Fever23-1
Smallpox--330
Cholera---5
Puerperal Fever691018
Erysipelas11467104153
5763307861222

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There is a marked increase in the number of cases of all notifiable
infectious diseases as compared with previous years, and this has been
the case all over London, and from table H in the appendix which gives
the number of cases notified in each Sanitary District during 1893, it
will be seen that the position of Fulham, especially when the age
distribution of the district is considered, is not unsatisfactory.
Smallpox.
London was threatened during the year with a formidable epidemic
of this disease, as notwithstanding the perfect organization of the
Metropolitan Asylum Board's ambulance service, the disease spread
rapidly during the first five months of the year, the number of cases under
treatment at the Board's Hospitals and at the Highgate Hospital rising
steadily from 38 in the first week of January to 570 in the middle of
May, the disease then declined till the end of September, there being
then 77 cases under treatment in the Hospitals, after this it again