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TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
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To the Board of Works, Fulham District.
Gentlemen,
In my twentieth Annual Report, which I had the
honor of presenting to you last year, I laid before you a summary
of the Sanitary work which had been carried out within
the Fulham District during the two previous decades. There
is little to add to it for the year 1876.
The ordinary inspections have been made, and the usual
proceedings for the removal of nuisances have been prosecuted
under the directions of the Sanitary Committee, whilst
some much required additions have been made to local drainage.
The chief feature of the year has been the outbreak of
Small-Pox in London towards the latter part of it, in which
the Fulham District has shared. Under the authority of the
Sanitary Committee the usual precautions have been taken,
including the prompt removal of cases to hospital accommodation
where practicable, and the destruction of infected
bedding and clothing.
The total mortality of the District during 1876 has been
1963,—a number of deaths which compare favourably, considering
the almost incalculable additions to our population
from immigration ; but, even taking the excess of births over
deaths as a basis of calculation, it is remarkable. The number
of Births registered within the District were 3315, showing
the excess of births to be 1352.
The deaths from the various Zymotic diseases have been as
follows :—Small-Pox, 3 ; Measles, 67 ; Scarlet Fever, 98 ;
Diptheria, 9 ; Whooping Cough, 47 ; Typhus Fever, 4 ;
Typohid Fever, 18; Simple Fever, 6; Diarrhoea, 131; and
English Cholera, 12.
I have the honor to be,
Gentlemen,
Your faithful Servant,
FREDk. J. BURGE,
Mcdical Officer of Health.
Hammersmith,
January, 1877.