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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Fulham 1905
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1905
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TABLE XXI. Percentage of notified cases in Fulham removed to Isolation Hospital.
| Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Small-pox. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 64.4 | 41.5 | 37.3 | – |
| 1892 | 75.0 | 64.0 | 66.0 | 100 |
| *1893 | 63.6 | 48.0 | 45.0 | 97 |
| 1894 | 78.0 | 70.0 | 70.0 | 98 |
| *1895 | 70.0 | 74.0 | 45.6 | 100 |
| *1896 | 62.5 | 60.0 | 38.0 | 100 |
| 1897 | 75.0 | 65.0 | 41.5 | – |
| 1898 | 79.0 | 81.1 | 50.0 | – |
| 1899 | 81.7 | 81.6 | 51.0 | 100 |
| 1900 | 84.0 | 86.9 | 72.5 | 100 |
| 1901 | 82.0 | 85.4 | 68.2 | 94 |
| 1902 | 85.9 | 85.1 | 72.0 | 99 |
| 1903 | 87.4 | 91.4 | 73.8 | 100 |
| 1904 | 86.0 | 77.0 | 88.4 | – |
| 1905 | 94.1 | 94.7 | 71.5 | – |
*In these years the accommodation in the Board's hospitals
proved inadequate, and many patients remained at home who
otherwise would have been removed.
Puerperal Fever.
24 cases of Puerperal Fever, or 5.1 per 1,000 births, were
notified, of which 9 proved fatal, or 1.9 per 1,000 births. Two
cases, both terminating fatally, occurred in the practice of an
unregistered woman who practised as a midwife but did not
describe herself as such. By the Mid wives Act, 1902, it was
provided that after the first day of April, 1905, no woman who
was not certified under the Act shall take or use the name or
title of midwife, and that after April Ist, 1910, no woman shall,
habitually and for gain, attend women in child-birth otherwise
than under the direction of a qualified medical practitioner, unitless
she be certified under the Act.
Erysipelas.
144 persons were certified to be suffering from Erysipelas,
which was the assigned cause of 4 deaths.
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