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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 1915

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1915

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Table: Institutional Treatment. Under the tuberculosis scheme of the London County Council the following patients were sent to sanatoria or hospitals during the year:-

Institutional Treatment. Under the tuberculosis scheme of the London County Council the following patients were sent to sanatoria or hospitals during the year:-

Males.Females.
Patients under 14 years of age414
Patients over 14 years of age514
928

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96 residents in Fulham (64 men and 32 women) received
treatment in sanatoria as patients of the London Insurance
Committee, their average stay being 11 weeks.
DEATHS FROM NON-NOTIFIABLE
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Measles.
A severe epidemic of measles prevailed throughout
the borough in the first six months of 1915, there
being 119 deaths in that period, but only two in the second
half of the year. The mortality from measles was
higher in Fulham than in any previous year with the
exception of 1896, when 164. deaths were recorded.
Compulsory Notification.
By an Order of the Local Government Board, measles
and German measles were made compulsorily notifiable
from January 1st, 1916.

Table: Whooping Cough. The deaths from whooping cough in the four quarters of the year were:-

Whooping Cough. The deaths from whooping cough in the four quarters of the year were:-

1st Quarter11
2nd „23
3rd „9
4th „8
51

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The death-rate from the disease was 0,34, the decennial
average being 0.32.