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Whooping Cough.
48 deaths were accredited to Whooping Cough, equivalent
to a death-rate of 0·33 per 100, the mean death-rate of the
preceding ten years being 0·51 per 1000.
Diarrhœa.
The deaths from Diarrhoea numbered 167, corresponding
to a death-rate of 1·14 per 1,000, the mortality being in excess
of that of 1902, when the death rate was 0"89 per 1,000.
One hundred and twenty-seven deaths, or 76 per cent., were
of infants under one year of age, and 35 were of children between
1 and 5 years.

The diarrhœal mortality in Fulham compared, as is always
the case, very unfavourably with that of other Metropolitan
Boroughs, being higher than in any other Borough excepting
Shoreditch, and nearly twice as high as that of the County of
London.
The majority of the deaths of children from Diarrhœal
disorders were investigated, and of 79 who died under the age
of nine months it was ascertained that all but two were handfed.
The excessive diarrhœal mortality of Fulham as compared
with the adjoining boroughs will be seen from the following
Table; —