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]
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Periods. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Frver. | Phthisis. | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Positive Results. | Negative Results. | Total Examined. | Positive Results. | Negative Results. | Total Examined. | Positive Results. | Negative Results. | Total Examined. | Totals. | |
1898 (6 months) | 11 | 20 | 31 | 31 | 17 | 48 | .. | .. | .. | 79 |
1899 | 47 | 50 | 97 | 25 | 51 | 76 | 36 | 43 | 79 | 252 |
1900 | 43 | 62 | 105 | 33 | 45 | 78 | 35 | 44 | 79 | 262 |
1901 | 80 | 90 | 170 | 66 | 46 | 112 | 28 | 43 | 71 | 353 |
1902 | 52 | 70 | 122 | 45 | 69 | 114 | 39 | 83 | 122 | 358 |
1903 | 14 | 64 | 78 | 15 | 54 | 69 | 40 | 96 | 136 | 283 |
1904 | 28 | 58 | 86 | 14 | 39 | 53 | 46 | 89 | 135 | 274 |
1905 | 61 | 86 | 147 | 34 | 22 | 56 | 87 | 131 | 218 | 421 |
1906 | 68 | 99 | 167 | 27 | 29 | 56 | 57 | 96 | 153 | 376 |
1907 | 88 | 135 | 223 | 25 | 34 | 59 | 68 | 121 | 189 | 471 |
1908 | 93 | 188 | 281 | 34 | 25 | 59 | 69 | 136 | 205 | 545 |
1909 | 64 | 236 | 300 | 20 | 35 | 55 | 60 | 162 | 222 | 577 |
1910 | 125 | 276 | 401 | 32 | 29 | 61 | 63 | 157 | 220 | 682 |
1911 | 157 | 327 | 484 | 19 | 33 | 52 | 66 | 186 | 252 | 788 |
1912 | 137 | 298 | 435 | 23 | 27 | 50 | 119 | 341 | 460 | 945 |
Totals (for 14J years) .. | 1068 | 2059 | 3127 | 413 | 555 | 998 | 813 | 1728 | 2541 | 6666 |
VACCINATION, OR THE STATE OF PREPAREDNESS OF THE
BOROUGH TO MEET SMALL POX.
To any man who has seen the ravages of Small Pox such as the Medical
Officer of Health has beheld, the vaccination returns of the last seven years have
been melancholy reading, for it will be noticed in the Table immediately following
that the vaccinations have gradually declined from 1888 to the present time.
In the former year they represented 82.3 per cent, of the births, while in the
latter they figure at 62.3 per cent. It is much to be feared that this
diminishing percentage will go on still further decreasing and the possibility