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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 1897
Forty-second annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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Table LXXXIV. Showing the number of Cases of the several Infectious Diseases notified during each year since 1891, together with the mean number for the six years 1891-6, and in 1897. (Duplicate certificates excluded.)
| Year. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever orScarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Enteric (Typhoid Fever). | Typhus Fever. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Cholera. | Total. | Cases notified per 1,000 of Population. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 1891 | 1 | 728 | 712 | 44 | 189 | 1 | 343 | 36 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2,063 | 6.4 |
| 1892 | 42 | 1,710 | 695 | 43 | 219 | .. | 550 | 51 | 6 | .. | 4* | 3,320 | 10.3 |
| 1893 | 118 | 2,880 | 855 | 30 | 251 | 1 | 672 | 38 | 7 | .. | 1 | 4,853 | 14.8 |
| 1894 | 90 | 1,493 | 843 | 24 | 245 | 1 | 395 | 23 | 9 | .. | .. | 3,123 | 9.4 |
| 1895 | 25 | 1,692 | 564 | 18 | 184 | 5 | 319 | 22 | 9 | 2 | .. | 2,840 | 8.5 |
| 1896 | 50 | 2,031 | 1,067 | 24 | 229 | .. | 385 | 30 | 6 | .. | .. | 3,882 | 11.15 |
| Corrrected Mean, 1891-6 | 56 | 1,823 | 819 | 31 | 228 | 1 | 461 | 34 | 7 | .. | 2 | 3,462 | 10.09 |
| 1897 | 3 | 1,577 | 700 | 29 | 256 | .. | 312 | 27 | 1 | .. | 1 | 2,906 | 8.51 |
| Increase or Decrease on Mean | — 53 | — 246 | — 119 | — 2 | + 18 | — 1 | — 149 | — 7 | — 6 | •• | — 1 | — 556 | — 1.58 |
[1897
* 3 of these were Asiatic cholera.