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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 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]
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| Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street | 1 |
| National Hospital | 1 |
| Grosvenor Hospital, Vincent Square | 1 |
| Grove Fever Hospital | 1 |
| South Western Fever Hospital | 1 |
| Bolingbroke Hospital | 2 |
| Throat Hospital, Golden Square | 1 |
| Friedenheim | 3 |
| St. Joseph's Hospice | 1 |
| Hostel of God, Clapham | 3 |
| Hospital for Incurables | 1 |
| Hanwell Asylum | 16 |
| Banstead Asylum | 14 |
| Colney Hatch Asylum | 2 |
| Tooting Bec Asylum | 6 |
| Leavesden Asylum | 3 |
| Manor Asylum | 6 |
| Horton Asylum | 7 |
| Cane Hill Asylum | 3 |
| Caterham Asylum | 3 |
| Claybury Asylum | 3 |
| Belmont Asylum | 2 |
| Camberwell House Asylum | 3 |
| Dartford Heath Asylum | 1 |
| Tooting House Asylum | 1 |
| West Riding Asylum, Wakefiefd | 1 |
| Wandsworth Infirmary | 1 |
| Hammersmith Infirmary | 1 |
| City Infirmary, Bromley | 1 |
| Lambeth Infirmary | 2 |
| Lewisham Infirmary | 1 |
| Other Places | 23 |
| 327 |
GENERAL SANITARY ADMINISTRATION.
DISINFECTION.
All infected articles were disinfected at the Council's Disinfecting
Station, Townmead Road. The total cost of the
station for the year was .£996, including £96 10s. for interest
on loan for building and plant, and ,£216 for repayment of
principal. £104 was received from Hammersmith Borough
Council for articles disinfected for them while their station
was closed for repairs, so that the net cost was ,£892. During
the last three years the work was done bv a contractor,
the cost averaged £1,257, and at that time disinfection was
not carried out after measles or phthisis, as is generally the
case now.
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
The facilities afforded by the Council for the bacteriological
examinations of suspected material as an aid to
diagnosis conlinue to be much appreciated by medical practitioners,
and the following specimens were examined during
the year:—
Number of Specimens.
Material from cases of suspected Diphtheria.
Klebs Lofller or true Diphtheria bacillus
isolated
85
Pseudo Diphtheria bacillus of Hoffman
isolated
34
Negative result
141
260