Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1900.

  • Fulham (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1901]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1900. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    39 As a result of this, there was a marked diminution in the num ber of deaths under these latter headings, and where they were used enquiries were made of the certifying practitioners as to whether they considered these deaths to have been of the nature of Epidemic Diarrhoea, and when this was the case the deaths are included under the head of Diarrhoea. In 1900, Diarrhoea was the cause of 156 deaths, including 11 ascribed to Gastro-Enteritis, which were stated by the certifying practitioner to be of the nature of Epidemic Diarrhoea. In 1899, Diarrhoea was given as the cause of 183 deaths, while 141 were ascribed to Enteritis, Gastro-Enteritis, etc., as against 33 in 1900, so that the actual decline in the fatality of this disease was much greater than is shown by the figures for Diarrhoea alone. The mortality was equal to a rate of 1.17 per 1,000 which was only exceeded by five of the London Sanitary Districts. In the 33 large towns Diarrhoea caused a mortality equal to a rate of 0.94 per 1,000, ranging from 0.23 in Halifax, 0.29 in Bradford, 0.37 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to 1.44 in Liverpool, 1.52 in Sheffield, 1.67 in Preston and I.68 in Hull. The following table gives the Diarrhœal death-rate of Fulham, London, and the adjoining parishes during the last 10 years:— TABLE XXVI. Deaths from Diarrhœa per 1,000 living. Average of io yrs -1890-1899 1895 1896 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1897 1898 1899 1900 Pulham 1.04 1.16 0.94 1.30 0.53 1.18 1.15 1.21 1.45 1.40 1.14 1.17 0.46 Kensington 0.52 0.41 0.60 0.33 0.68 0.35 0.70 0.64 0.59 0.53 0.62 Hammersmith 0.96 0.90 0.70 0.79 0.79 0.80 0.46 1.20 1.12 0.93 0.86 0.86 Chelsea 0.50 0.62 0.77 0.76 0.34 0.82 0.67 1.03 0.77 0.66 0.70 0.85 London 0.66 0.57 0.60 0.80 0.41 0.82 0.71 0.92 0.97 0.92 0.75 0.80 It will be noticed in Table XI that upwards of 80 per cent, of the total registered deaths from Diarrhoea occur under one year of age, and it has been pointed out that to state the deaths from Diarrhoea in terms of the total population unfairly handicaps dis