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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 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]
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Table IV.
| Notifiable Diseases. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward of the Borough. | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | 0—1. | 1—2. | 2-3. | 3—4. | At Aces—Years. | 20—35. | 35—45. | 45—65. | 65 and upwards. | Barons Court Ward. | Lillie Ward. | Walham Ward. | Margravine Ward. | Munster Ward. | Hurlingham Ward. | Sands End Ward. | Town Ward. | Total cases removed to Hospital. | Deaths. | ||||
| 4—5. | 5—10. | 10—15. | 15—20. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Smallpox | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Cholera, Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 359 | 4 | 18 | 32 | 27 | 27 | 131 | 41 | 21 | 41 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 24 | 85 | 34 | 35 | 83 | 26 | 45 | 27 | 355 | 13 |
| Erysipelas | 81 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 3 | 9 | 9 | 47 | 9 | 5 | 19 | 8 | 9 | 17 | 3 | 16 | 4 | 51 | 3 |
| Scarlet Fever | 416 | 2 | 12 | 24 | 36 | 26 | 179 | 56 | 29 | 41 | 7 | 4 | - | 28 | 71 | 50 | 34 | 124 | 31 | 58 | 20 | 394 | 2 |
| Typhus Fever | - | - | - | -_- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric Fever | 41 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 11 | - | 5 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 32 | 1 |
| Relapsing Fever, Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Fever | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 5 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 51 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 44 | 5 | 1 | - | 3 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 31 | - |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 7 | 4 | 4 | — |
| Polio-myelitis | 3 | -_ | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | — | - | — | 3 | — |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 38 | 38 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 9 | — | 2 | 4 | 7 | — |
| Tuberculosis of Respiratory System | 256 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 7 | 29 | 102 | 47 | 53 | 11 | 16 | 44 | 19 | 33 | 66 | 14 | 48 | 16 | - | 114 |
| Disseminated Tuberculosis | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 |
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | 76 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 20 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 4 | 13 | 6 | — | 21 |
| Measles | 2099 | 92 | 228 | 196 | 249 | 369 | 924 | 20 | 10 | 12 | 2 | - | - | 77 | 227 | 260 | 256 | 596 | 135 | 412 | 136 | 182 | 15 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| Pneumonia | 297 | 19 | 31 | 20 | 12 | 8 | 27 | 11 | 10 | 44 | 34 | 58 | 23 | 9 | 42 | 80 | 27 | 64 | 6 | 59 | 10 | 152 | 158 |
| Diarrhoea | 60 | 50 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 17 | 9 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 48 | 53 |
| Malaria | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Dysentery | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Trench Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 3806 | 211 | 309 | 281 | 326 | 436 | 1284 | 147 | 112 | 344 | 124 | 186 | 46 | 181 | 545 | 491 | 437 | 1017 | 228 | 676 | 231 | 1277 | 400 |