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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 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]
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Postponed by medical certificate and unvaccinated on 3lst
January, 1937 42
Removed to other districts and unvaccinated on 31st
January, 1937 69
Removed to places unknown 134
Outstanding on 31st January, 1937 14
Number of successful primary vaccination certificates
received during 1936 1160
Number of Conscientious Objection Certificates received
during 1936 427
The figures show that 55 per cent, of the infants born in 1935 had been successfully
vaccinated by the end of January, 1937.
The following rooms were disinfected and cleansed after Infectious Diseases, etc.:—
TABLE 53.
| Scarlet Fever | 291 |
| Diphtheria | 168 |
| Measles | 44 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 47 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 |
| Tuberculosis | 171 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 |
| Vermin | 342 |
| Cancer | 12 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 7 |
| Poliomyelitis | 2 |
| School Class rooms after Diphtheria | 5 |
| Ditto. after Scarlet Fever | 16 |
| Chicken Pox | 5 |
| Whooping Cough | 2 |
| Enteric Fever | 10 |
| Infantile Paralysis | 3 |
| By request | 21 |
| Maternity Home | 28 |
| Day Nursery | 42 |
| Babies' Hospital | 1 |
| Infant Welfare Clinics | 25 |
| Library | 4 |
| 1,249 |