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Fulham 1898
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1898
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free from the disease, 9 deaths being recorded in the 2nd quarter,
3 in the 3rd, and 1 in the 4th.
The death rate from the disease in Fulham and the adjoining districts was:—
| Fulham | 0.47. |
| County of London | 0.68. |
| Kensington | 0.70. |
| Hammersmith | 1.20. |
| Chelsea | 0.95. |
| The distribution of the deaths was as follows:— | |
| Baron's Court Ward | 9 |
| Hurlingham | 1 |
| Lillie | 6 |
| Margravine | 14 |
| Munster | 6 |
| Sands End | 9 |
| Town | 5 |
| Walham | 9 |
No steps have jet been taken by the London County Council with
respect to the application to Measles of the provisions of the Public
Health (London) Act, which render a person liable to a penalty who,
while suffering from any dangerous infectious disease, wilfully exposes
himself without proper precautions against spreading the disease, or
being in charge of any person so suffering so exposes such sufferer.
It will be remembered that the Vestry requested the Local Government
Board to sanction the application of this section to Measles, in
addition to the other diseases specified in the Act, who suggested that
the Vestry should bring the matter under the attention of the County
Council, as the question of extending certain of the provisions of the
Public Health (London) Act to diseases other than those specified in
Section 58 of the Act was one which would be more satisfactorily
considered with regard to the Metropolis as a whole than with regard to
individual sanitary districts.
WHOOPING COUGH.
Forty-one deaths were ascribed to this disease, being 27 below
the decennial average, allowing for the increase of the population. The
death-rate was 0.33 and that of the County of London 0.48.
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