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Fulham 1903
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1903
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Distribution of Cases of Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
Table XV. gives the actual number of cases of infectious
diseases notified, and Table XVI. the number of cases notified
per 10,000 of the population in each ward.
TABLE XVI. Cases of Infectious Diseases notified per 10,000 inhabitants.
| Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Total. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barons Court Ward | 0.0 | 9.0 | 8.2 | 3.3 | 9.0 | 3.3 | 32.8 |
| Lillie Ward | 0.0 | 17.5 | 22.9 | 4.5 | 5.4 | 0.9 | 51.2 |
| Walham Ward | 0.0 | 13.5 | 20.7 | 1.6 | 6.5 | 0.8 | 43.1 |
| Margravine Ward | 1.2 | 36.5 | 14.8 | 21.8 | 11.8 | 1.2 | 87.3 |
| Munster Ward | 0.9 | 27.0 | 15.0 | 4.3 | 8.6 | 0.6 | 56.4 |
| Hurlingham Ward | 0.0 | 21.4 | 27.0 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 52.9 |
| Sands End Ward | 2.3 | 45.4 | 31.2 | 3.1 | 9.7 | 1.6 | 93.3 |
| Town Ward | 0.0 | 31.6 | 17.0 | 3.1 | 5.4 | 0.8 | 57.9 |
| The Borough | 0.8 | 27.4 | 19.9 | 5.4 | 7.8 | 1.3 | 62.6 |
SMALL-POX.
Eleven cases of Small-pox were notified in Fulham during
1903, as compared with 15 and 94 in the two preceding years,
and of these one patient was found after admission to the Long
Reach Hospital not to be suffering from that disease, but the
case so closely simulated Small-pox that the Medical Superintendent
deemed it advisable to isolate him for so long a period as
would have been necessary had he been so suffering.
The following Table gives brief particulars of the cases in
the borough, and it will be noticed that no case terminated
fatally.