Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1895
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by each family in which a case occurred, the returns
of patients removed from each class of tenement have
been got out, and percentage rates calculated. These
have, been tabulated in the same manner and with the
same standard as was done when dealing with the
incidence of disease in connection with overcrowding,
see page 29, supra.
TABLE 15.
All diseases. | Diphtheria and Memb. Croup. | Scarlet Fever. | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cases. | Removals. | Rates per cent. | Cases. | Removals. | Rates per cent. | Cases. | Removals. | Rates per cent. | |
Tenements of ONE room | 51 | 44 | 86.2 | 17 | 15 | 88.2 | 22 | 21 | 95.4 |
With 2 persons or less per room | 14 | 9 | 62.4 | 4 | 3 | 75.0 | 1 | 1 | 100.0 |
,, more than 2 | 37 | 35 | 94.6 | 13 | 12 | 92.3 | 21 | 20 | 95.2 |
Tenements of TWO rooms | 174 | 135 | 77.5 | 63 | 43 | 68.2 | 100 | 86 | 86.0 |
With 2 persons or less per room | 76 | 51 | 67.8 | 29 | 17 | 58.6 | 39 | 30 | 76.9 |
„ more than 2 | 98 | 84 | 85.7 | 34 | 26 | 76.4 | 61 | 56 | 91.8 |
Tenements of THREE rooms | 195 | 124 | 63.5 | 66 | 36 | 54.5 | 116 | 80 | 68.9 |
With 2 persons or less per room | 153 | 89 | 58.1 | 50 | 23 | 46.0 | 97 | 63 | 64.9 |
„ more than 2 | 42 | 35 | 83.3 | 16 | 13 | 81.2 | 19 | 17 | 89.4 |
Tenements of FOUR rooms | 90 | 43 | 47.7 | 28 | 19 | 35.7 | 57 | 32 | 56.1 |
With 2 persons or less per room | 85 | 40 | 47.0 | 26 | 9 | 34.0 | 54 | 30 | 55.5 |
„ more than 2 | 5 | 3 | 60.0 | 2 | 1 | 50.0 | 3 | 2 | 66.6 |
All tenements of less than FIVE rooms | 510 | 346 | 67.8 | 174 | 104 | 59.7 | 295 | 219 | 74.2 |
With 2 persons or less per room | 328 | 189 | 57.6 | 109 | 52 | 47.7 | 191 | 124 | 64.9 |
„ more than 2 | 182 | 157 | 86.2 | 65 | 62 | 80.0 | 104 | 95 | 91.3 |
Tenements of FIVE rooms or more | 200 | 66 | 33.3 | 55 | 16 | 29.0 | 105 | 39 | 37.1 |