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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 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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[1910
here was a decrease of 284 on its decennial average. The cases of this disease
formed nearly 64 per cent, of the notifiable infectious diseases attacking
scholars. Diphtheria was discovered to have attacked 197 children attending
school, or 34 per cent, of the total number of scholars stricken with an
infectious disease. The cases were 45 below the decennial average, and 87
below the number known in 1909.
Enteric Fever attacked 13 scholars, or 25 below the decennial average.
These 13 cases represented 2.2 per cent, of the scholars afflicted by this
disease. It is very satisfactory to find that all the diseases when contrasted
with the decennial average attacked 370 fewer scholars.

Table: Table XCVI. Showing the Scholars attacked by the Notifiable Infectious Diseases in the Public Elementary Schools.

Table XCVI. Showing the Scholars attacked by the Notifiable Infectious Diseases in the Public Elementary Schools.

Year.By Small Pox.By Scarlet Fever.By Diphtheria.By Enteric Fever.By Other Diseases.Total Scholars attacked.Proportion to every 100 cases notified.
19001542283671390639.8
1901..6694387232121142.5
1902146644056434118137.3
1903..507216351677445.3
1904..571138282075739.0
1905..640138312383243.2
1906..78517733399843.9
1907..60821611183640.5
1908..80923019..105846 .2
190973718416193845.8
Ten years' Average2653242381494942 .1
19103691971357938 .O
Decrease on Average228445251437041.1