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Fulham 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]
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within the meaning of the 26th Section of the Sanitary Act,
1866, and to justify an application to the magistrate to enforce the
removal of the patients. Out of the 108 cases reported in only
three instances did a second person contract the disease after
information as to the first outbreak of the complaint was reported
to your Sanitary Department. Detailed particulars in
reference to all of the cases of smallpox which occurred last year
have been laid before you in my four Quarterly Reports. It is,
therefore, not nccessary that I should again refer to them in this
Report.
The following table shows the number of cases of smallpox that were reported in each of the Parishes of the Fulham District during each of the twelve months of the year 1884, also the number of cases that were treated at hospitals and the number
| Parish of Fulham. | Parish of Hammersmith. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month. | Treated at Hospital | Treated at Home. | Totals. | Treated at Hospital | Treated at Home. | Totals. | Grand Total |
| 14 | If) | 9 | 9 | ||||
| 0 | |||||||
| 0 | 2 | ||||||
| 2 | |||||||
| 5 | 5 | 6 | |||||
| 4 | 7 | 16 | 4 | ||||
| 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 55 | 39 | 4 | 43 | ||||
The above table shows that the epidemic commenced, as far
as this District is concerned, in the month of April and began to
decline in the month of December. Contrary to what usually
occurs there was a much larger number of cases in the last six
months of the year than in the first.