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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 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham Borough]
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PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OYER INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES
Smallpox: Contacts of Smallpox numbering 12 were kept under
observation during the year. No cases occurred
in the Borough.
Scabies : Treatment was arranged for 16 men, 21 women and
32 children. All cases were followed up, to
ensure that contacts received appropriate
treatment.
Other Treatment was given for 4 men, 19 women and 7
Conditions: children who were infested with pediculi.
Cancer: The percentage of deaths from this cause was
17.3, a decrease on last year's figure of 19.5.
Notifiable Diseases: The following table shows the number of cases notified during 1949 (corrected figures), with the comparative figures for 1948:-
| Disease | No. of Notifications | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 1948 | ||
| 6 | |||
| Scarlet Fever | 327 | ||
| 1099 | 889 | ||
| Whooping Cough | 192 | 368 | |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 32 | ||
| Acute Polioencephalitis | 4 | ||
| Acute Pneumonia | 32 | 28 | |
| Dysentery | 10 | ||
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | 10 | 1 | |
| Paratyphoid Fevers | |||
| Cereb.ro-spinal Fever | 4 | 1 | |
| Erysipelas | 20 | ||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 14 | 14 | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 6 | ||
| Epidemic Diarrhoea (under 5 years) | 45 | 40 | |
| Scabies | 28 | ||
| Food Poisoning | 11 | ||
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 245 | 203 | |
| Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 23 | 23 | |
| 2108 | 1795 | ||