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annual rate of 0.24 per 1000 persons living, and were equal to 1.20
per cent, of the total deaths registered. In all of the cases reported
in this district last year, the house where the patient resided was
carefully inspected as to its sanitary state, and where practicable a
proper system of disinfection was carried out.
Whooping Cough.
There were 62 cases of whooping cough reported last year, 32 in the
parish of Eulham, and 30 in the parish of Hammersmith, against 208
registered during the previous year, of which there were 127 in the
parish of Fulham, and 33 in the parish of Hammersmith. These 62
cases were all reported in the death returns. They were equivalent
to an annual rate of 045 per 1000 persons living, and were equal to
2.38 per cent, of the total deaths registered. The deaths from whooping
cough in all London were equivalent to an annual rate of 0.40
per 1000 persons living, and were equal to 1.90 per cent, of the total
deaths registered.
Typhus Fever.
During last year 36 cases of typhus fever were reported in this
district against no cases in the previous year. 31 of the cases last
year occurred in the parish of Hammersmith, and 5 in the parish of
Fulham. The 31 cases in the parish of Hammersmith occurred at
Nazareth House. One of the cases in the parish of Eulham occurred
at the Western District Hospital. The patient was a nurse. She contracted
the disease through attending upon the other cases, which
were in mistake taken into the hospital. The other five cases in
the parish of Eulham occurred at private dwelling houses. The
particulars of the outbreak in the parish of Hammersmith were laid
before your Board in a special report. Of the 36 cases which occurred
in the district 17 were not reported until after the recovery of the
patients, and one till after the death of the patient. 14 cases were
removed to hospitals, 7 were taken by your Board, first to the WesternDistrict
Hospital at Eulham, and afterwards to the South-Western
district Hospital at Stock well, 3 cases were removed by your Board
direct to the Stockwell Hospital, 3 cases were removed to the Fulham
Hospital, two by your Board, and one by the Fulham Board of
Guardians. The difficulty to diagnose typhus fever when patients
are first attacked, would appear to be somewhat great, as not one of
the 14 cases removed was certified as suffering from typhus fever at
the time of the removal. There were 3 deaths registered from typhus
fever in this district last year, one of which occurred in the parish of
Fulham, and two in the parish of Hammersmith, against no death
registered in this district in the previous year. The deaths in this
district last year were equal to 0 12 per ceut. of the total deaths registered,
and were equivalent to an annual rate of 0'02 per 1000