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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 1883
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]
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TABLE V.
The following table shows the deaths from zymotic diseases (exclusive of those of non-parishioners that took place at the Western District Hospital at Fulham), registered in the Fulham district in the years 1882 and 1883:—
| Disease. | Tear 1882. | Year 1883. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sub-dist. St Peter's | Sub-dist. St.Paul's | Sub dist. Fulham. | Total. | Sub-diet. St Peter's | Sub-dist. St. Paul's | Sub-dist. Fulham. | Total. | |
| Smallpox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Measles | 1 | 40 | 23 | 64 | 3 | 24 | 23 | 50 |
| Scarlet Fever | 9 | 19 | 57 | 85 | 1 | 21 | 37 | 43 |
| Diphtheria | 0 | 14 | 13 | 27 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 17 |
| Whooping Cough | 4 | 77 | 127 | 208 | 3 | 27 | 32 | 62 |
| Typhus Fever | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Enteric Fever | 3 | 17 | 6 | 26 | 1 | 16 | 11 | 28 |
| Simple Cnd. Fever | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Diarrhoea | 2 | 45 | 25 | 72 | 3 | 52 | 75 | 130 |
| English Cholera | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Total | 19 | 215 | 253 | 487 | 11 | 156 | 191 | 342 |
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