Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 30th, 1899.

  • Fulham (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
[1900]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 30th, 1899. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    17 1899 0.45 0.25 0.23 0.27 0.43 Deaths from Diphtheria per 1,000 Inhabitants. 1898 Average for to years 1889-1898 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1895 1897 0.15 0.49 Fulham 0.25 0.3 2 0.63 0.99 0.70 0.52 0.49 0.66 0.21 Kensington . 0.53 0.47 0.15 0.20 0.40 0.67 0.17 0.20 0.49 0.46 0.38 Hammersmith 0.28 0.51 0.43 0.49 0.49 0.75 0.74 0.53 0.49 0.21 0.49 Chelsea 0.58 0.41 0.56 0.59 1.17 0.56 0.43 0.25 0.17 0.54 0.52 London 0.61 0.39 0.38 0.33 0.32 0.44 0.75 0.52 0.59 0.59 0.48 Return Cases.—In 5 instances the disease occurred within 10 days of the return of a patient living in the same house from one of the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals after recovery from a similar attack. In each instance the Diphtheria bacillus was discovered in the nasal secretion of the returned patient. The occasional persistence of the infectiousness of the disease is illustrated by the following case: — A child was admitted into the Fountain Fever Hospital on June 15th, suffering from Scarlet Fever, while there had a mild attack of post-scarlatinal Diphtheria, was discharged about the middle of August, and went to Leytonstone for a month, returning home to Fulham in the middle of September. A fortnight after her return the mother contracted Diphtheria, and was removed on October 2nd to the hospital. The child then went back to Leytonstone, returned to Fulham on October 16th, slept for three nights with her father, who was notified on October 23rd as suffering from Diphtheria, and was removed to the hospital. On October 21st she went to stay with some relatives in another street in Fulham, ami on November 6th a cousin, aged 25, contracted Diphtheria. Shortly after this she went to Kingstonon-Thames, and within a few days her uncle and aunt, with whom she was staying, were attacked with Diphtheria. Several bacteriological examinations were made, and the bacillus of Diphtheria was found on every occasion in the nasal secretion until the end of January, though both the throat and nose appeared per fectly healthy. A resident in Fulham was prosecuted by the Vestry for knowingly placing in a cab his servant, who was suffering from Diphtheria. Fined £3 and 2s. costs. B