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Fulham 1924
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1924
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that although the incidence rate of this disease in
Fulham, viz., 8.7 per thousand births is still high,
the rate omitting the cases following miscarriages would
be only 6.7 per thousand births. The corresponding
figure for 1923 was 6.0.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—Twenty-seven infants were
notified as suffering from ophthalmia neonatorum, of
whom 11 were removed to hospital. This total compares
with 22 notifications during 1923, and 33 during
1922.
The result of the cases was as under:—
| Cases. | Treated at home. | Treated in hospital. | Vision impaired. | Vision unimpaired. | Total blindness. | Deaths. | Left the district. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Measles.—Of the total of 1,692 cases of measles
notified during 1924, 1,029 occurred in children under
the age of five years.
Diarrhoea.—40 cases of infantile diarrhoea were
notified during 1924 as compared with 79 during 1923.
Undoubtedly the absence of hot summer weather had
much to do with this decrease in the notifications of
this disease. All these cases were under 5 years of
age. Perhaps I may take this opportunity of reminding
medical practitioners in the Borough that all cases
of epidemic diarrhoea [zymotic enteritis] under the
age of 5 years are compulsorily notifiable in Fulham
by special order of the Borough Council made under
section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
This Order came into force on February 9th, 1920.
Home Nursing.—Similar arrangements to those
fully explained in my Annual Report for 1922 continued
in force in the Borough during 1924. By these