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 1912
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1912
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Deaths occurring outside the Borough among persons
belonging thereto.
The deaths of Fulham residents in public institutions and elsewhere outside the borough numbered 366, and occurred in the following institutions:-
| St. George's Hospital | 63 |
| West London „ | 45 |
| Other General Hospitals (Metropolitan) | 32 |
| General Hospitals (Provincial) | 8 |
| Victoria Hospital for Children | 23 |
| Other Hospitals for Children | 6 |
| Lying-in and other Hospitals for Women | 8 |
| Cancer Hospital | 8 |
| Brompton Hospital | 4 |
| Other Special Hospitals (Metropolitan) | 3 |
| Homes for Incurables | 11 |
| Provincial Special Hospitals and Convalescent Homes | 10 |
| Hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums Board | 13 |
| Lunatic Asylums | 68 |
| Workhouses and Poor Law Infirmaries | 20 |
| In private houses and elsewhere | 44 |
| 366 |
Of the deaths registered, 841 or 41.7 per cent. took
place either in Poor Law institutions, in hospitals, or in
public lunatic asylums, the percentages in the various
classes of institutions being as under:—
Deaths in Workhouses or Workhouse Infirmaries 24.5
,, Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals 2.4
„ other Hospitals 11.4
„ Public Lunatic and Imbecile Asylums 3.4
41.7