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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 1908

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1908

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In Table "B" in the appendix are given the streets in which
the cases occurred.

Table: TABLE XXI. Number of cases of Scarlet Fever notified per 10,000 of thepopulation.

TABLE XXI. Number of cases of Scarlet Fever notified per 10,000 of thepopulation.

1898189919001901190219031904190519061907Mean of 10 years 1898-19071908
Baron's Court Ward25482534189205225172723
Lillie517034402518115463474136
Walham616028651714214347283821
Margravine835337285137113440454228
Munster876543382927266441354639
Hurlingham.637440572622124042444243
Sands End657962618146245441645760
Town686730302632234329323823
The Borough656541473828195042424437
The County of London384930414028294243523946

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Information was received from the Medical Officer of Health
of Shrewsbury that a resident of Fulham, working in Shrewsbury,
who had been notified to him as suffering from Scarlet
Fever, had left there and returned to his home in Fulham.
The man was seen at his residence, found to be suffering, as
stated, from Scarlet Fever, and removed to the Western Fever
Hospital. As he had travelled up by train from Shrewsbury
when knowing himself to be suffering from an infectious
disease, and thereby must have endangered the health of many
people with whom he had come in contact, the Public
Health Committee were advised to take proceedings
against him under the Public Health Act, for wilfully exposing
himself when suffering from Scarlet Fever, but decided to take
no action in the matter.