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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Islington 1896

Forty-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington

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Table: Table C. All canes of Diphtheria, before use of Antitoxin, 1894. (Day of disease=day of disease on which patient was admitted to hospital.)

Table C. All canes of Diphtheria, before use of Antitoxin, 1894. (Day of disease=day of disease on which patient was admitted to hospital.)

Day of Disease1st.2nd.3rd.4th.5th and after.Total.Mortality per cent.
Ages.Cases.DeathsCases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.
Under 100107411161511402562.547.4
1 to 2105422947253925664220412661.7
2 to 3167552751224426915025713251.3
3 to 41765826703771371205534216147.0
4 to 61545118712647141445032811234.1
5 to 105361793421571208604201091,07528026.0
10 to 15122854798595128223634111.2
15 to 206023033128070616074.3
20 and upwards403618215969210273186.6
Total133305391466521925661791,1523553,04290229.6
Mortality per cent...22.5.27 0..29.4..31.6..30.8..29.6..

Table: Table D. Showing Percentage Mortality in relation to Day of Disease on ivhich Cases came under Treatment.

Table D. Showing Percentage Mortality in relation to Day of Disease on ivhich Cases came under Treatment.

Day of Disease.* 1894.1896.Difference.
1st22.64.717.8
2nd27.012.814.2
3rd20.417.711.7
4th31.622.59.1
5th and over30.824.66.2
All Cases29.620.88.8
* Antitoxin Serum not in use.

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INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN SCHOOLS.
During the year special inquiries were made as to the schools
attended by every child who was attacked with an infectious disease,
and, in cases where the patients were not scholars, as to the schools