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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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TABLE XIV.
| No. of Births Registered from Jan. 1st, 1903, to Dec. 31st, 1903. | Successfully Vacdnated. | Insusceptible of Vaccination. | Dead Unvaccinated. | Postponed by Medical Certificate. | Certificates granted under Clause 2 of Vaccination Act 1898. | Removed to Districts in which Vaccination Officer has been notified. | Removed to places unknown. | Outstanding. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,797 | 3,755 | 13 | 423 | 66 | 61 | 36 | 433 | 10 |
253, or 86 per cent. of the patients notified were removed to
hospital for treatment.
Fatality.—The disease was again of a very mild type, the
four deaths representing a ease mortality of 1.4 per cent., the
lowest yet recorded in Fulham.
The following table shows the comparative prevalence of
Scarlet Fever in the various wards of the Borough and in the
County of London during the past nine years:—
TABLE XV.
| No.of Births Registered from Jan. 1st, 1904, to June 30tli, 1904. | Successfully Vaccinated | Insusceptible of Vaccination. | Dead Unvaccinated. | Postponed by Medical Certificate. | Certificates granted under Clause 2 of Vaccination Act 1898. | Removed to Districts in which Vaccination Officer has been notified. | Removed to places unknown. | Outstanding. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,478 | 1,901 | 7 | 235 | 82 | 21 | 18 | 207 | 7 |
TABLE XVI.
| Year. | Births. | Successfully Vaccinated. | Insusceptible of Vaccination. | Died Unvaccinated. | Vaccination postponed. | Removed, &c. | Certificates Granted under Clause 2 of the Vaccination Act of 1898. | Percentage not finally accounted for. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1894 | 3,792 | 3,068 | 22 | 333 | 46 | 323 | - | 10.3 |
| 1895 | 3,951 | 3,125 | 19 | 465 | 49 | 293 | — | 9.2 |
| 1896 | 4,015 | 3,151 | 24 | 434 | 34 | 372 | - | 10.7 |
| 1897 | 4,107 | 3,341 | 22 | 432 | 42 | 266 | 4 | 8.2 |
| 1898 | 4,311 | 3,170 | 23 | 453 | 78 | 497 | 90 | 16.0 |
| 1899 | 4,581 | 3,360 | 27 | 615 | 76 | 384 | 66 | 12.1 |
| 1900 | 4,552 | 3,345 | 13 | 470 | 65 | 458 | 63 | 13.2 |
| 1901 | 4,605 | 3,603 | 11 | 641 | 19 | 478 | 53 | 12.2 |
| 1902 | 4,790 | 3,700 | 19 | 457 | 51 | 439 | 29 | 11.3 |
| 1903 | 4,797 | 3,755 | 13 | 423 | 66 | 479 | 61 | 13.0 |