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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 1917
Fulham Borough
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TABLE VII. Cases of Infectious Diseases notified during the Year 1917
| Notifiable Disease. | Number Of Cases Notified. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward of the Borough. | Total cases removed to Hospital. | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | Barons Court Ward. | Lillie Ward. | Walham Ward. | Margravine Ward. | Munster Ward. | Hurlingham Ward. | Sands End Ward. | Town Ward. | ||||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 and upwards | |||||||||||
| Small-pox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Cholera (C) Plague (P) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 237 | 5 | 88 | 110 | 21 | 13 | – | – | 10 | 41 | 20 | 37 | 55 | 8 | 58 | 8 | 233 |
| Erysipelas | 50 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 2 | 9 | 3 | – |
| Scarlet Fever | 234 | – | 63 | 136 | 23 | 11 | 1 | – | 11 | 41 | 17 | 24 | 42 | 17 | 74 | 8 | 221 |
| Typhus Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Enteric Fever | 11 | – | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | – | – | 1 | 3 | – | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | 11 |
| Relapsing Fever (R) Continued Fever (C) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | — | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Puerperal Fever | 15 | – | – | – | 4 | 10 | 1 | – | – | 4 | 1 | – | 5 | – | 2 | 3 | 12 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 20 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | – | – | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | – | 16 |
| Poliomyelitis | 5 | 1 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 4 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 57 | 57 | – | – | – | – | 67 | – | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 9 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 582 | 3 | 17 | 145 | 115 | 224 | 67 | 11 | 29 | 90 | 51 | 88 | 142 | 34 | 96 | 52 | – |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 118 | 10 | 10 | 52 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 11 | 17 | 32 | 3 | 20 | 10 | – |
| Measles | 2021 | 82 | 809 | 1009 | 80 | 38 | 3 | – | 104 | 360 | 136 | 216 | 518 | 96 | 415 | 176 | – |
| German Measles | 361 | 8 | 52 | 144 | 90 | 61 | 6 | – | 96 | 36 | 17 | 29 | 92 | 24 | 25 | 42 | – |
| Totals | 3711 | 175 | 1063 | 1607 | 362 | 393 | 92 | 19 | 267 | 612 | 263 | 428 | 930 | 188 | 717 | 306 | 506 |