Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Forty-fifth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington
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1900] 112
Cases of Diphtheria Nursed at Home.
Quarter. | Cases. | Deaths. | Percentage Fatality. |
---|---|---|---|
1st | 43 | 4 | 9·3 |
2nd | 31 | 9 | 29·0 |
3rd | 40 | 8 | 20·0 |
4th | 45 | 9 | 20·0 |
The Year | 159 | 30 | 18·8 |
HOSPITAL STATISTICS.
Table XC. Showing the number of cases of the several infectious diseases removed from Islington to the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals for treatment and isolation during 1900.
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Typhus Fever. | Other Diseases. | Total Admissions. | Total Deaths. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Eastern | .. | 20 | 326 | 43 | .. | 36 | 425 | 66 |
North Eastern | .. | 635 | 1 | 2 | .. | 40 | 678 | 14 |
North Western | .. | 67 | 60 | 42 | .. | 11 | 170 | 22l |
Western | .. | 2 | 3 | .. | .. | 1 | 6 | .. |
South Western | .. | 4 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 9 | .. |
Fountain | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
South Eastern | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. |
Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Northern Convalescent | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Totals | .. | 728 | 386 | 87 | .. | 88 | 1,289 | 103 |