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DEATHS OF ILLEGITIMATE INFANTS.- Of the 323
infants who died before attaining the age of one year 55
or 17 percent, were illegitimate, the mortality among
them being in the proportion of 246 deaths per 1,000
births against 98 per 1,000 among children born in
wedlock.
PREVENTION OF INFANT MORTALITY. — Notification
OF BIRTHS. — 2,633 notifications of living and 67 of still-
of Born, children were received under the Notification of
Births Act, 92 per cent, of the births registered in
Fulham being notified. Of these 70 per cent, were
notified by midwives, 27.5 per cent, by medical practitioners
and 25 per cent, by relatives. 2.442 babies
were visited by your Health Visitors, who paid 4,419
visits, and in addition 3,010 visits were paid by the
Superintendent and the nurses of the Fulham Maternity
and Child Welfare Centre.
664 babies were brought to the consultations held
at 92, Greyhound Road, 170, Wandsworth Bridge
Road and Melmoth Hall, Eustace Road, by the doctors
attached to the Welfare Centres.
Sickness From Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
Scarlet Fever. — 234 cases were notified, being
fewer than in any year since 1891, and there were 4
deaths.
Diphtheria.— 237 cases were notified, with 16
deaths, against 312 with 20 deaths in 1915. '
Enteric Fever. — Eleven cases were notified, with
two deaths.
Puerperal Fever. — Fifteen cases were notified,
and there were four deaths, or 1˙3 per 1,000 births.
ERYSIPELAS. — There were 50 cases of erysipelas,
with two deaths.
Cerebro - Spinal Meningitis.— Twenty cases were
notified, against 17 and 12 in the two preceding years,
and there were eleven deaths.