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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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1896]
The occupations followed by the several persons attacked were as
follows:—
Barmaid 1 person.
Bootmaker 1 „
Bricklayer 1 „
Housewives 3 „
Labourer 1 „
Laundress 2 „
Schoolchildren. 4 „
Servants 3 „
Shop Assistant 1 „
Tobacconist 1 „
The trades carried on in the houses in which they lived were:—
Bootmaking 1 person.
Confectioner 1 „
Common Lodging House 7 „
Dressmaking 1 ,,
obacconist 1 „
SCARLET FEVER.
To Scarle Fever were ascribed 2,031 cases of illness, as against
1,692 in 1895, and an average of 1,693 in the five years 1891-95, for
which periods the returns were as follows
1891 700 cases.
1892 1,703 „
1893 2,879 „
1894 1,493 „
1895 1,692 „
1896 2,031 „
In proportion to population the incidence of the disease was
greatest in South-east Islington, a district in which there had not been
a single case of Small Pox, and least in South-west Islington. The full
particulars are given in Tables LIV. and LV.
The disease was generally of a mild type as shown by the fatality
(Table LVI.) which was only 2.8 per cent.