View report page

CONTINUED FEVER.
Five cases were notified as " Continued Fever," all occurring in the
practise of one practitioner. There was no reason to suspect that any of
these were cases of Enteric Fever.
PUERPERAL FEVER.
Fourteen cases were notified, of which 8 or 57 per cent, proved fatal,
being in the proportion of 1.7 deaths to 1,000 births.
CHOLERA.
One person was certified as suffering from Cholera, but there was no
reason to believe that the disease was other than what is known as English
Cholera.
ERYSIPELAS.
134 cases were notified of this diseases, and it was the cause of 3
deaths.
Deaths from Non-Notifiable Zymotic Diseases.
MEASLES.
The district was free from Measles until October, when it made its
appearance in the Sand's End and Lillie Wards, and speedily became
prevalent throughout the district, though the epidemic has not been quite so
severe as those of 1896 and 1897.
The deaths due to the disease numbered 50, representing a death-rate
of 0.42 per 1,000 for the year, being much below the mean rate for the
previous ten years, which was o.80, but for the last quarter the death rate
from Measles was 1.6.
The death rate of the County of London was almost the same as that
of Fulham, viz. : 0.43, two-thirds of the deaths occurring in the last quarter,
but the disease was, up to the end of the year, comparatively absent from
the adjoining parishes, the death-rates being : Kensington 0.19, Hammersmith
0.05, and Chelsea 0.18, though the epidemic has since spread to
them.