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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1912]
DIPHTHERIA.
To Diphtheria, including 4 cases of Membranous Croup, were attributed
516 cases, or 25 more than the decennial average (1902-11) of 491. The
return is, however, less than that of the preceding year, when 593 cases were
notified. That there were so many is to be regretted; but it will be
found that in the neighbouring borough of St. Pancras they were even more
numerous, and in a smaller population, than in Islington. It is difficult to
ascribe a reason for the increase.
The following statement gives the attack-rate for London, for the provincial towns, the great and smaller towns of England, and for the various boroughs which encircle Islington :—
Cases. | Attack-rate. | |
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London | 7,101 | 1.58 |
240 Provincial Towns | 29,659 | 1.28 |
94 Great Towns | 24,437 | 1.33 |
146 Smaller Towns | 5,222 | 1.15 |
St. Pancras | 550 | 2.55 |
Stoke Newington | 55 | 1.09 |
Hackney | 252 | 1.13 |
Hornsey | 87 | 1.01 |
Finsbury | 144 | 1.68 |
Shoreditch | 139 | 1.26 |
The Encircling Boroughs | 1,227 | 1.59 |
Houses infected.—The 512 cases of Diphtheria occurred in 441 houses,
of which 402 were infected with only one case, while 24 houses had two
cases, 10 houses three cases, 4 houses four cases, and in 1 house five cases.
1 case in house. | 2 cases in house. | 3 cases in house. | 4 cases in house. | 5 cases in house. | No. of houses infected | No. of cases in 1912. | |
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402 | 24 | 4 | 1 | 441 | 501 | ||
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Hospital Isolation.—466 cases, or 90.3 per cent., were removed to
hospital, and of these 353 were received into the institutions of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board.