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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LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD RETURN.—TABLE II.
Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1914 in the Metropolitan
Borough of Islington.
Notifiable Disease. | Cases Notified in Whole District. | Total Cases Notified in each Registration Sob-District. | Total cases removed to Hospital. | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||||||
Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | Tufnell. | Upper Hollo way | Tollington. | Lower Holloway. | Highbury. | Barnsbury | Islington South-Eas | |||
Small-pox | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• |
Cholera (C) Plague (P) | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• |
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 659 | 7 | 209 | 366 | 46 | 30 | 1 | •• | 45 | 83 | 47 | 77 | 126 | 101 | 180 | 612 |
Erysipelas | 334 | 15 | 13 | 26 | 37 | 97 | 110 | 36 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 40 | 36 | 70 | 101 | 80 |
Scarlet Fever | 1853 | 26 | 405 | 1174 | 178 | 66 | 3 | 1 | 135 | 183 | 221 | 231 | 283 | 405 | 395 | 1768 |
Typhus Fever | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• |
Enteric Fever | 76 | • • | 2 | 15 | 21 | 32 | 6 | •• | 5 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 21 | 68 |
RelapsiDg Fever (R) Continued Fever (C) | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• |
Puerperal Fever | 25 | •• | •• | •• | 7 | 18 | •• | •• | 6 | 2 | •• | 1 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 15 |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 7 | 3 | 3 | •• | 1 | •• | •• | •• | 2 | 1 | •• | 1 | •• | •• | 3 | 5 |
Poliomyelitis | 8 | •• | 6 | 2 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 1 | 2 | •• | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 56 | 2 | 8 | 28 | 13 | 5 | •• | •• | 2 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 18 | •• |
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 96O | 6 | 18 | 65 | 166 | 458 | 227 | 20 | 80 | 107 | 88 | 103 | 142 | 153 | 287 | •• |
Other forms of Tuberculosis | 190 | 11 | 37 | 84 | 29 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 24 | 24 | 31 | 26 | 21 | 31 | 33 | •• |
Totals | 4168 | 70 | 701 | 1760 | 498 | 723 | 357 | 59 | 327 | 441 | 439 | 487 | 631 | 798 | 1045 | 2554 |
Isolation Hospital or Hospitals, Sanatoria, &c.—Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals.
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