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Fulham 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham Borough]
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WESTERN HOSPITAL, one of the London County Council Infectious
Diseases Hospitals, had 165 deaths during the year. Of this number 33 were
Fulham residents, and 132 were patients admitted from other districts.
DEATHS OF FULHAM RESIDENTS OUTSIDE THE BOROUGH. The deaths of Fulham residents in institutions outside the Borough numbered 464 and occurred in the following places:—
| St. George’s Hospital | 24 |
| West London Hospital | 23 |
| Princess Beatrice Hospital | 38 |
| Other General Hospitals | 56 |
| Children’s Hospitals | 19 |
| Women’s Hospitals | 6 |
| Other Special Hospitals | 33 |
| L.C.C. Infectious Disease Hospitals | 30 |
| Public Assistance Hospitals | 160 |
| Mental Hospitals | 71 |
| Sanatoria | 4 |
| 464 |
Of the deaths of Fulham persons 62.3 per cent, took place in Public Institutions as follows:—
| per cent. | |
|---|---|
| 805 in Public Assistance Institutions, or Hospitals | 70.5 |
| 63 in Infectious Disease Hospitals | 5.5 |
| 203 in Other Hospitals | 17.8 |
| 71 in Mental Hospitals | 6.2 |
ZYMOTIC DEATHS. The Zymotic Death Rate is that from the principal
zymotic or infectious diseases, viz.—smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria,
measles, whooping-cough, diarrhœa and fevers (typhus, enteric, other or
doubtful fevers).
The mortality from these diseases was higher than in 1933, 88 deaths
being due to them as against 50. The death rate per 1,000 of the population
was 0.6 compared with 0.3 for 1933. The increase was largely due to the
increase in deaths from diphtheria and to the epidemic of Measles in the first
half of the year.
SEASONAL MORTALI1Y. The mortality in the four quarters of the year under review, was as follows:—
| Second Quarter | 458 | 407 |
| Third Quarter | 321 | 337 |
| Fourth Quarter | 430 | 478 |
| 1,832 | 1,926 |