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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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| Grove Fever Hospital | 2 |
| Northern Fever Hospital | 1 |
| South Eastern Fever Hospital | 1 |
| Banstead Asylum | 7 |
| Belmont Asylum | 1 |
| Camberwell House Asylum | 2 |
| Cane Hill Asylum | 8 |
| Caterham Asylum | 4 |
| Claybury Asylum | 1 |
| Dartford Heath Asylum | 1 |
| Hanwell Asylum | 11 |
| Horton Asylum | 9 |
| Long Grove Asylum | 8 |
| Manor Asylum, Epsom | 1 |
| Tooting Bec Asylum | 4 |
| Wormwood Scrubbs Prison | 1 |
| Other Places | 13 |
| 321 |
Of the 2,157 deaths of residents in Fulham registered
during 1908, 762, or 35.4 per cent., took place either in workhouses,
in hospitals, or in public lunatic asylums.
The percentages in the various classes of institutions in Fulham and London were as under: —
| Deaths in workhouses or workhouse infirmaries | FULHAM. | LONDON |
| 19.5 | 21.4 | |
| Deaths in Metropolitan Asylums Board hospitals | 2.7 | 1.8 |
| Deaths in other hospitals | 10.5 | 15.4 |
| Deaths in public lunatic and imbecile asylums | 2.7 | 3.3 |
| 35.4 | 41.9 |
GENERAL SANITARY ADMINISTRATION.
Disinfection.
All infected articles were disinfected at the Council's Disinrecting
Station, Townmead Road. The total cost of the
station for the year was £997 14s. 2d., including £84 5s. for
interest on loans for building and plant, and £216 for repayment
of principal. During the last three years the work was
done by a contractor, the cost averaged £1,257.