Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Table LXXIII.
Year. | Cases. | Deaths. | Fatality | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Total of Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Total of Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | Deaths to 100 cases of Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | Departure from Average Fatality of 10 years.* | |
1900 | 624 | 9 | 633 | 100 | 6 | 106 | 16.7 | - 4.9 |
1901 | 902 | 9 | 911 | 124 | 10 | 134 | 14.7 | - 6.9 |
1902 | 871 | 7 | 878 | 101 | 3 | 104 | 11. 8 | - 8.8 |
1903 | 452 | 3 | 455 | 41 | 2 | 43 | 9.4 | - 10.0 |
1904 | 347 | .. | 347 | 27 | 1 | 28 | 8.1 | - 10.3 |
1905 | 351 | .. | 351 | 33 | 1 | 34 | 9.7 | - 7.3 |
1906 | 437 | 2 | 439 | 30 | 2 | 32 | 7.3 | - 8.6 |
1907 | 480 | 1 | 481 | 41 | 1 | 42 | 8.7 | - 5.2 |
1908 | 522 | 8 | 530 | 59 | 1 | 60 | 11.3 | - 1.6 |
1909 | 425 | 5 | 430 | 30 | 1 | 31 | 7.2 | - 5.2 |
1900-09 | 5,411 | 44 | 5,455 | 586 | 28 | 614 | 11.3 | - |
1910 | 463 | 8 | 471 | 34 | - | 34 | 7.2 | - 4.1 |
*The last column shows the departure from the average fatality of the ten years preceding year indicated. |
Table LXXIV.
2nd | 8 | 1 | 12.5 | 68 | 4 | 5.9 |
3rd | 6 | - | - | 105 | 7 | 6.6 |
4th | 13 | - | - | 178 | 13 | 7.3 |
Year | 33 | 1 | 3.3 | 438 | 33 | 7.5 |
Note —In comparing columns 3 and 6 it must not be forgotten that it is only the mildest cases which as a rule are retained at home. The worst cases are invariably hurried to hospital. |