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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 1913
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1913
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indirectly, to be put into force with respect to any
person in relation to whom a notification in pursuance
of these Regulations has been transmitted to a Medical
Officer of Health any enactment which renders the
person, or anyone in charge of the person, or any other
person, liable to a penalty, or subjects the person to any
restriction, prohibition, or disability affecting himself or
his employment, occupation or means of livelihood, on
the ground of his suffering from tuberculosis."
DEATHS FROM NON-NOTIFIABLE
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Measles.
The deaths from measles in the four quarters of the year were:—
The death-rate was 031 per 1,000, being 0.13 per
1,000 below the average rate of the preceding ten years.
521 cases reported by the Schools were visited
by the Sanitary Inspectors. Disinfection was carried
out after 319 cases.
| The deaths from whooping cough in the four quarters of the year were:— | |
The death-rate from the disease was 0.7 per 1,000,
or being half of the average rate for the ten years
1903-12.