Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1909.

  • Fulham (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1910]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1909. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    18 Table XI. gives the infantile death-rates of the several wards of the borough, corrected by the distribution of the births in Fulham Infirmary, since 1901, when the returns of the births registered in the borough were first obtained. TABLE XI. Deaths under one year -per 1,000 births. Ward. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. 1906. 1907. 1908. 1909* Baron's Court 152 134 98 181 108 88 146 91 75 Lillie 149 159 138 137 147 137 151 106 122 Walham 195 164 142 185 183 166 184 152 140 Margravine 138 157 144 179 153 171 136 129 133 Munster 139 130 125 140 137 142 116 120 102 Hurlingham 147 99 104 159 98 150 99 81 76 Sands End 174 182 121 156 168 127 107 136 94 Town 118 106 76 121 105 72 64 64 98 * The figures for 1909 include the births in outside Maternity Institutions. PREVENTION OF INFANT MORTALITY. Notification of Births Act. Three thousand two hundred and sixty-five notifications were received under the above Act, 3,196 of living and 69 of stillborn children, 75 per cent. of the births registered being notified. Of these, 1,896, or 58 per cent. were notified by wives, 1,058, or 32.4 per cent. by medical practitioners, and 311, or 9.6 per cent. by the father or some other relative. Three hundred and twenty-five mothers were visited by the Sanitary Inspector, Mrs. Davies, and 679 by voluntary helpers who worked in connection with the Fulham School for Mothers, but as has been repeatedly urged there is need for the ser¬