London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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 1911

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1911

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Table: TABLE X. Death under one year per 1,000 births.

TABLE X. Death under one year per 1,000 births.

Ward.1901190219031904190519061907190819091910Mean of Ten Years 1901-19101911
Barons Court1521349818110888146917512211970
Lillie149159138137147137151106122103135128
Walham195164142185183166184152140156167124
Margravine138157144179153171136129133135148154
Munster139130125140137142116120102103125137
Hurlingham14799104159981509981764310659
Sands End17418212115616812710713694109137138
Town1181067612110572646498819151
The Borough152148127153145136125118111110133125

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Notification of Births Act—Prevention of Infant
Mortality.
3,099 notifications of living and 71 of still-born
children were received under the above Act, 77 per
cent, of the births registered in the borough being
notified. Of these 2,025 or 63.9 per cent, were notified
by midwives, 976 or 30.8 percent, by medical practitioners
and 169 or 5.3 per cent, by the fathers or some other
relative. I regret again to have to point out that the
Council still decline to avail themselves fully of the
information obtained under this Act by refusing to
appoint a Health Visitor, who could devote her whole
time to visiting mothers and giving advice as to the
proper care and management of babies, a step again
urged without success in a report presented to the Public
Health Committee last summer which has been advocated
by the Local Government Board and has been uniformly
successful wherever tried. From a return lately issued