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Fulham 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]

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68
VITAL STATISTICS OF WORKING-CLASS FLATS
Table 18 shows, for the third successive year, the vital statistics of certain groups of flats in
the Borough. Any one year's figures arc, because of the comparative smallness of the population
concerned, insufficient on which to base sound conclusions. Their yearly compilation, however,
will, in due course, enable a five-year and then a ten-year average to be computed. This should
provide reliable evidence. It will be denoted that the infant mortality in Lewis Trust, S.W. 6, Block
is particularly high. It was based on three deaths, the first from failure of the lungs to expand at
birth, the second from prematurity and the final one from whooping cough and bronchial pneumonia.
The one death in Peabody Buildings which gave rise to the high infant mortality rate of 250 was
due to prematurity. The infant death at Fulham Court was due to influenzal meningitis which was
bacteriologically confirmed.

Table: 4.Housing Act, 1935.—Overcrowding:—

4.

Housing Act, 1935.—Overcrowding:—

(a).— (i) Number of dwellings overcrowded at ,the end of the year1,312
(ii) Number of families dwelling therein1,312
(iii) Number of persons dwelling therein7,651
(b).—Number of new cases of overcrowding reported during the year413
(c).— (i) Number of cases of overcrowding relieved during the year882
(ii) Number of persons concerned in such cases5,518
(d).—Particulars of any cases in which dwelling-houses have again become overcrowded after the Local Authority have taken steps for the
abatement of overcrowding—
(e).—Any other particulars with respect to overcrowding conditions upon which the Medical Officer of Health may consider it desirable to reportSee below.
* Including Notices served during 1936, but not complied with up to 31st December, 1936.

Table: TABLE 16

TABLE 16

Total dwellings measured...24,926
Statements of "permitted numbers" sent...30,328
Number of cases of overcrowding found on 1935 Survey...1,795
Number of cases of overcrowding abated 193614
1937882
896
New cases of overcrowding found on 1937 Survey...413
Overcrowded cases on books at end of 1937...1,312
Analysis of the 896 cases abated:—
(a) Re-housed on Borough Council Estates...30
(b) Re-housed on L.C.C. Estates...24
(c) Re-housed by Public Trusts...—
(d) Family obtained more accommodation in same house...174
(e) Family reduced in number...241
(f) Family found other accommodation...427