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METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF FULHAM
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
FULHAM,S.W.6.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies & Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present the Annual Report on the
health of the Borough for the year 1949. On the instructions
of the Ministry of health this report is again presented in an
abridged form.
The Registrar General's estimate gives the mid-year
population of the Borough as 124,040, an increase of 740 on
the figure for the preceding year.
The Birth Rate of 16.48 per 1,000 is somewhat lower
than the figure for 1948 (18.3 per 1,000), and the Infantile
Mortality Rate of 26.4 per l,OOO live-births also shows a very
slight decrease (26.5 in 1948), and is again the lowest recorded
rate for the Borough.
Statistical records for the year indicate that the
health of the public was maintained at a very satisfactory
standard, although Fulham did not escape the epidemic of
Poliomyelitis which was universal throughout the country during
the summer months. There was also a minor outbreak of Typhoid
Fever during the months of June and July, 10 cases being notified,
one proving fatal.
Further details of these two outbreaks are given in
the appropriate section of the Report.
Special attention has been given to food hygiene and
the importance of clean food, with increasing supervision of
all premises where food is stored, prepared or sold (including
those where meals are taken such as restaurants, cafes and
eating houses of all types).
A special section of Sanitary Inspectors, headed by
the Inspector of Food & Drugs was formed early in the year for
the specific purpose of carrying out a complete survey of all
such establishments in the Borough, and giving advice on all
matters connected with food hygiene.