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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 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]
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| Bronchitis | 188 | 39 | 23 | .. | .. | 59 | 67 | 13 | 37 | 27 | 27 | 38 | 12 | 24 | 10 | 52 | |
| Pneumonia | 189 | 69 | 56 | 1 | 6 | 38 | 19 | 12 | 38 | 19 | 30 | 39 | 14 | 22 | 15 | 40 | |
| Pleurisy | 7 | 2 | 3 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 4 | .. | .. | |
| Other diseases of Respi-ratory organs | 19 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | .. | 3 | 7 | .. | 3 | 3 | 1 | |
| Alcoholism | 41 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 36 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 10 | |
| Cirrhosis of liver | |||||||||||||||||
| Venereal diseases | 26 | 21 | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 14 | |
| Premature birth | 110 | 110 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6 | 22 | 8 | 19 | 20 | 5 | 28 | 2 | 2 | |
| Diseases and accidents of parturition | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| Heart diseases | 134 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 62 | 42 | 16 | 2'i | 21 | 12 | 24 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 22 | |
| Accidents | 101 | 35 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 30 | 11 | 11 | 18 | 13 | 16 | 17 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 23 | |
| Suicides | 17 | a , | .. | 17 | 3 | .. | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | .. | |||||
| Murder | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| All other causes. | 039 | 180 | 49 | 16 | 12 | 216 | 166 | 57 | 93 | 90 | 66 | 146 | 36 | 89 | 63 | 175 | |
| All causes | 2,346 | 752 | 315 | 88 | 73 | 764 | 374 | 172 | 370 | 266 | 304 | 524 | 136 | 382 | 192 | 695 | |
Corrected Death-rate.
The Medical Officer of Health of the County of London,
Sir Shirley Murphy, has published a factor for the correction of
differences in the age and sex constitution of each metropolitan
borough. This is arrived at by obtaining the age and sex
distribution of the population of a borough at the last census,
and after ascertaining the death-rate for each sex, at each age
period, in England and Wales during the last ten years, a
calculation is made of the number of deaths which would have
occurred in the district had similar rates prevailed, and a
"standard" death-rate is obtained. The difference between this
rate and that of England and Wales is assumed to be due to
differences in the ages and sex constitution of the population
of the district, and by dividing the latter by the former a factor
is obtained for correcting the crude death-rate of the district.