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Fulham 1905
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1905
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DEATHS FROM INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
To the seven principal infectious diseases 424 deaths were
ascribed, corresponding to a death-rate of 2.70 per 1,000.
The death-rate from these diseases in the County of London
was 170 per 1,000, being 0.72 per 1,000 below the mean rate
in the ten years 1895-1904. Among the several Metropolitan
boroughs the lowest rates were 0.53 in Hampstead, 0.57 in the
City of London ard 0.81 in Westminster, and the highest were
2.65 in Poplar, 270 in Fulham, and 2.96 in Shoreditch. The
corresponding rate in England and Wales was 1.52, and in the
76 large towns 1088.
In Table IX. will be found the number of deaths from each
of the principal infectious diseases in 1905 and in the ten
preceding years, and in Table X. the death-rate per 1,000 of the
population of eacli ward in 1905.