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Fulham 1902
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1902
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The cost to the Council of the epidemic for the maintenance
of contacts at the shelter, and compensation for loss of work
and destruction of infected articles, amounted to only
.£'26 12s. 6d., the disinfection of infected houses, bedding, &c.,
the supervision of contacts, and other work in connection with
the outbreak being carried out by the ordinary staff.
| Vaccinated. | Unvaccinated. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of Cases. | Deaths. | No. of Cases. | Deaths. | |
| Under 1 year | — | — | 2 | 2 |
| 1—5 years | — | — | 3 | 1 |
| 5—10 years | l | — | 8 | 1 |
| 10—15 years | 7 | — | 4 | 1 |
| 15—25 years | 24 | — | 2 | 2 |
| 25—65 years | 58 | 8 | — | .— |
| 90 | 8 | 19 | 7 | |
The case mortality of the vaccinated cases was 8.9%, of the
unvaccinated 369%, and there was no death among vaccinated
persons under the age of 25 years.
It will be noticed that among vaccinated children under
the age of 10 years there was only one case, while among unvaccinated
children of the same age there were 13 cases with 4 deaths.
The vaccination returns show that during the last 10 years 11%
of the children born in Fulham have escaped vaccination, so
that the incidence rate among the vaccinated children under 10
years was 0.33 per 10,000, among the unvaccinated children of
the same age 34.8 per 10,000, or, in other words, if the incidence
rate had been the same among vaccinated children under 10 as
among the unvaccinated, there would have been 105 cases at that