London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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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General Sanitary Administration.
Disinfection. —25,302 articles of bedding, clothing,
&c., were disinfected at the Council's Disinfecting
Station.
2,II6 rooms were disinfected and cleansed after
infectious illness.
Bacteriological Examinations. — The following bacteriological examinations were made on behalf of Dr. Burnet.
| Number of Specimens. | |
|---|---|
| True Diphtheria bacillus isolated | 46 |
| Hoffmann or Pseudo Diphtheria bacillus isolated | 2 |
| Negative result | 220 |
| 268 | |
| Blood from cases of suspected Enteric Fever. | |
| Widal or Typhoid reaction obtained | 6 |
| Widal or Typhoid reaction not obtained | 5 |
| 11 | |
| Sputa from cases of suspected Tuberculosis. | |
| Tubercle bacillus found | 79 |
| „ „ not found | 342 |
| 11 -7 | 420 |
| Other Examinations | 11 |
| Total | 710 |
Public Mortuary.—2l8 bodies were removed to
the mortuary during the year.
Food Supply.— The dairies, slaughterhouses, bakehouses,
restaurants, &c, were kept under observation
by your Inspectors and a large amount of work
was carried out by them in connection with the
numerous Orders of the Food Controller, the duty of
seeing that these were observed being imposed on
them.
Unsound Food. —Proceedings under the Public
Health (London) Act were instituted in the following
cases: —