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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 1878
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]
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nance of cases removed by your orders. Owing to this new arrangement,
no less a sum than £438 was directly saved dining
the year. Besides which it must have been an incalculable advantage
to the patients to be spared the long journey, to
Highgate while suffering from such an exhaustive disease as
variola.
Sub-District of Fulham.
Sub-District of St. Paul
Sub-District of St. Peter.
| Qurtr. | Mean Tem'' ature, | Males | Females. | Total. | Males | Females. | Total | Males | Females | Total | Grand Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | DEG. 41.5 | 129 | 135 | 264 | 145 | 122 | 267 | 18 | 17 | 35 | 566 |
| 2nd | 54.6 | 154 | 162 | 316 | 126 | 140 | 266 | 20 | 19 | 39 | 621 |
| 3rd | 60.8 | 131 | 111 | 212 | 158 | 179 | 337 | 14 | 17 | 31 | 610 |
| 4th | 41.6 | 119 | 106 | 225 | 148 | 143 | 291 | 14 | 19 | 33 | 549 |
| Tot'l | 49.6 | 533 | 514 | 1047 | 577 | 584 | 1161 | 66 | 72 | 138 | 2346 |
fulham small pox hospital.
The existence of the Fulham Small Pox Hospital has been a
great anxiety to the inhabitants of Fulham, no one can doubt
it has been very injurious to the immediate locality so far as pecuniary
interest is concerned; but this is not the point which it
is my duty to deal with in presenting to you the facts that have
come before me. There is not a more difficult task than to decide
whether or not the existence of a Small Pox Hospital in a
locality is a means of propagating the disease. It is not