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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 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]

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INDEX
Pages
Aged and Infirm Persons 56
Ambulance Facilities 30
Atmospheric Pollution and New Power Station 52
Babies' Hospital 44
Bacteriological Examinations 29
Bakehouses and Bakers' Shops, Inspections of 77
Cancer 93
Catarrhal Jaundice 91
Clinic and Treatment Centres 31
Closet Accommodation 46
Combined Drainage 51
Committees, Public Health and Maternity. and Child Welfare 7
Common Lodging House 57
Deaths, Causes of 15,23,24
Certification of Causes 14
of Fulham Residents outside the Borough 14
in Public Institutions 14
Diarrhoea, Epidemic 91
Diphtheria 89
Antitoxin 89
Immunisation 89
Disinfection 109
Disinfestation 66
Drainage of Buildings 50
Extracts from Vital Statistics 12
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces 58
Food and Drugs, Adulteration 75,76
Food and Food Premises, Inspection of 48, 77
Food, Unsound 79
General Statistics 12
Graph, Birth, Death and Infant Mortality Rates 20
Gyntecological Clinic 33
Health Propaganda 33
Home Nursing 30
Hospitals 32
House-to-House Inspection 47, 64
Housing 62-68
General 62
Redevelopment Area 62
Photographs 63
Overcrowding 65
Disinfestation 66
Advice to Tenants 66
London County Council Estates 66
Vital Statistics of Working-class Flats 68

Table: TABLE 42Diagnosis at various Age Periods. New Patients.

TABLE 42

Diagnosis at various Age Periods. New Patients.

Pulmonary Tuberculosis.Other Forms.Suspects.Non-Tuberculous.Percentage Tuberculous.
Under 5 years2-1424.44
Under 10 years321686.75
Under 15 years3112513.33
Under 25 years39816143.12
Under 35 years443—8037.00
Under 45 years174—3835.59
45 years and over44——6441.66
All ages15218437830.61

Table: TABLE 43Of 161 of the 170 tuberculous patients found in 1937:-

TABLE 43

Of 161 of the 170 tuberculous patients found in 1937:-

2lived in the basement.
41lived on the ground floor.
49lived on the first floor.
14lived on the second floor.
6lived on the third floor.
1lived on the fourth floor.
10lived on the top floor.
13lived on more than one floor.
25lived in the whole house.

Table: TABLE 44Housing A ccommodation

TABLE 44

Housing A ccommodation

Number of Families occupying
One room.Two rooms.Three rooms.Four rooms.Five rooms.Six rooms or more.
Patient living alone7-1---
Patient living with-
1 other413173--
2 others—721721
3 „—114932
4 „—27422
5 „——39—5
6 „——22—3
7 „——11—-
8 „———2—2
9 „-----1
12 „----1—
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