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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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Fulham is always conspicuous by a high diarrhœal deathrate,
and hist year this exceeded that of any Metropolitan
Borough.
The excessive diarrhœal mortality of Fulham, as compared
with the adjoining boroughs, will be seen from the following
table :—
TABLE XXIV. Deaths from Diarrhæa per 1,000 living.
| 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | Mean of 10 yrs 1895-04. | 1905 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fulham | 1.18 | 1.15 | 1.23 | 1.45 | 1.40 | 1.17 | 1.31 | 0.89 | 1.13 | 1.47 | 1.24 | 1.28 |
| Kensington | 0.68 | 0.35 | 0.70 | 0.64 | 0.59 | 0.62 | 0.66 | 0.45 | 0.60 | 0.78 | 0.61 | 0.51 |
| Hammersmith | 0.79 | 0.80 | 1.20 | 1.12 | 0.93 | 0.86 | 1.02 | 0.55 | 0.81 | 1.03 | 0.91 | 0.67 |
| Chelsea | 0.82 | 0.67 | 1.03 | 0.77 | 0.66 | 0.85 | 0.51 | 0.53 | 0.42 | 0.62 | 0.69 | 0.42 |
| London | 0.82 | 0.71 | 0.92 | 0.97 | 0.92 | 0.80 | 0.86 | 0.53 | 0.64 | 1.02 | 0.81 | 0.72 |
DEATHS FROM TUBERCULAR DISEASES.
Phthisis accounted for 192 deaths, the decennial average
corrected for the increase of population being 220, while 85
deaths were ascribed to other Tubercular diseases, such as
Tubercular Meningitis, Tabes Mesenterica, and General
Tuberculosis.
In the several wards of the borough the death-rates from
Phthisis and other tubercular diseases were as under: —