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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

Islington 1900

Forty-fifth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington

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109 [1900

Table: Table LXXXVII. Summary of Infectious Sickness and of the Deaths arising therefrom, distinguishing those Cases treated at Home and in Hospitals; and showing the percentages of notified Cases removed to Hospitals, together with the Fatality among Cases treated at Home and in Hospitals.

Table LXXXVII. Summary of Infectious Sickness and of the Deaths arising therefrom, distinguishing those Cases treated at Home and in Hospitals; and showing the percentages of notified Cases removed to Hospitals, together with the Fatality among Cases treated at Home and in Hospitals.

Notified Cases Treated.Percentages of Notified Cases Treated.Deaths Occurring.(Percentages of Deaths Occurring.)
In HospitalsAt Home.Total.In Hospital.At Home.In Hospital.At Home.Total.In Hospital.At Home.Total.
Small Pox11250·050·0..11..100·050·0
Scarlet Fever8332411,07477·522·5177242·02·92·2
Diphtheria Membranous Croup47415963374925·1763010616018·816·7
Enteric (TyphoidFever)1817825969·930·131154617·119·217·7
Typhus Fever1..1100·0..............
Erysipelas5423128518·981·17101712·94·35·9
Puerperal Fever791643·756·342657·122·237·5
Continued Fever15616·683·4..22..40·033·3
Relapsing Fever......................
Cholera....................
Total1,5527242,27668·231·8135672028·79·28·8

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The fatality from Diphtheria at the several ages is given in Table LXXXVIII.