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Islington 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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1914]
ENTERIC FEVER.
Seventy-six cases of Enteric Fever were notified, which is a decrease of 16
on the average of the 10 years 1904-1913, and is equal to an attack-rate of
0 23 per 1,000 inhabitants.
This is a very different return from that of the earlier periods of notification,
as the following statement, showing the records for quinquennial periods,
indicates:—
From 1891 -1895 there were 1,088 cases notified.
„ 1896—1900 „ 1,334
„ 1901—1905 „ 894
„ 1906—1910 „ 522
„ 1911—1914 „ 248
(4 year-).
The behaviour of the disease in the neighbouring boroughs is shown in the following statement:—
| Cases | Attack-rates | |
|---|---|---|
| St. Pancras | 44 | 0.21 |
| Stoke Newington | 4 | 0.08 |
| Hackney | 28 | 0.12 |
| Hornsey | 8 | 0.09 |
| Finsbury | 19 | 0.22 |
| Shoreditch | 19 | 0.17 |
| 122 | 0.16 | |
| Islington...... | 76 | 023 |
Hospital Isolation—Sixty-eight (or 89.5 per cent.) cut of the 76 cases
notified were removed to Hospital for isolation, so that only eight remained
at home.
Fatality—As 14 deaths occurred from the disease, the fatality was 18.4,
which is an increase of 10 per cent. on the return for 1913. The fatality of
the cases treated in Hospital was 17.6, and of those treated at home, 25 per
cent.
The full particulars of the fatality from this disease are set forth in the
next Table.