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Fulham. These are really deaths from diarrhoea, which has
a somewhat rapid course. They are not, in the ordinary
sense of the word, infectious diseases, though caused and
aggravated in many instances by the same circumstances.
violent death3 and inquests.
There were 74 deaths from violence, of which 5 took place
in St. Peter's, 51 in St. Paul's, and 18 in Fulham, against 55
deaths occurring in the whole district the previous year.
There were 16O inquests held against 113 the previous year.
There were 11 in St. Peter's, 96 in St. Paul's, and 53 in Fulham.
The great increase in the number of inquests and violent deaths
is no doubt the natural result of the large addition to the population
in the course of the year.
deaths in public institutions.
There were 307 deaths registered in public institutions, of
which there were 56 in St. Paul's, and 251 in Fulham. Of the
56 in St. Paul's there were 41 males and 15 females. They all
took place in the West London Hospital.
Of the 251 in Fulham, 110 took place in the Fulham Workhouse
(56 males and 54 females), 135 in the Fulham Smallpox
Hospital (76 males and 59 females), and six females in the Fulham
Cancer Hospital. Besides these numbers, there were two.
deaths registered in the Female Convict Prison, Fulham Town.
pigeries,
The attention of your Board was much engaged during
the year with the question of the nuisances occasioned by swine
keeping. By direction of vour Board, legal proceedings were
taken against 13 pig keepers in the so-called Fulham fields, with
the view of abolishing the same. It was found necessarv to
employ counsel, as a most determined defence was made, and local
medical evidence was adduced with the intention of proving
that swine could be kept without being injurious to health.
The learned Magistrate, however, decided the case on the ex
pert evidence adduced by your board, ignored the medical evi
dence for the defence, and granted orders with costs as prayed
for. I need hardly state that this is a step in the right
direction, and we may fairly hope lor a like success,
in any future proceedings that your Board may think fit to take
There are still a great number of swine in the district so kept
as to be a nuisance and injurious to health. A.t the time of my
writing this report legal proceedings are ordered against certain
other Pig keepers in the parish of Fulham. I trust that a
like success will be the result in favour of your Board.