London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Islington 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
This page requires JavaScript
198
1911]
ISOLATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
As many as 1
| 75.5 Per cent. | ||||
| 1897 | 55.7 | 1905 | 76.1 „ | |
| 58.4 | 77.1 „ | |||
| I9°7 | 80.0 „ | |||
| 71.9 „ | ||||
| 1903 | 72.6 „ | |||
The Metopolitan Asylums Board, as usual, isolated the largest number of
these cases, and out of 1,416 persons removed from their homes, 1,300 were
taken to their hospitals.
Scarlet Fever.—766 cases out of 804, or 95.3 per cent., were isolated
and treated in hospitals, and of these, 656, or 85.6 per cent., were removed to
one or other of the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Diphtheria.—526 cases, or 887 per cent, of the 593 cases notified, were
isolated in hospital, and of these, 418 were treated in the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's Hospitals. Only 67, or 11.3 per cent., remained at home.
Enteric Fever.—Of the 73 cases that were notified, 56, or 767 per cent.,
were removed to hospital, while 17, or 23.3 per cent., remained at home.
Erysipelas.—275 cases were known, of which 62, or 22'6 per cent., were
treated in hospitals. Nearly all these occurred in the institutions in which
they were treated.
Puerperal Fever.—6 cases out of 14 that occurred, or 42.8 per cent
were treated in hospital, while 8 were treated at home.