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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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Violence.
The deaths of Fulham residents from accident or
negligence numbered 77, of which 10 were of infants
suffocated when in bed with their parents.
Other classes of diseases caused the following deaths :—
| Venereal Diseases | 18 |
| Diseases of the Nervous System | 88 |
| Diseases of the Circulatory System | 273 |
| Diseases of the Digestive System | 95 |
| Diseases of the Urinary System | 84 |
CERTIFICATION OF THE CAUSES OF
DEATH.
Of the 2,228 deaths registered, 2,054 or 92.2 per cent.
were certified by registered medical practitioners and
173 by Coroners after inquest, only one death, that
of a child of two from measles, being uncertified.
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Fulham Infirmary and Workhouse.
The deaths of 500 persons, 281 males and 219
females, occurred in Fulham Infirmary, and of 36, 24 males
and 12 females in the Workhouse Of these 528 belonged
to Fulham and 8 to other districts.
Western Fever Hospital.
In the Western Fever Hospital there were 187
deaths, 92 males and 96 females, of whom 42 belonged
to Fulham and 145 to other boroughs.