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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 1903
Forty-eighth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington
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1903] 104
Table LXXV.
(Deaths to 100 cases of Sickness).
| Sub-Districts. | 1st Quarter. | 2nd Qua..rter. | 3rd Quarter. | 4th Quarter. | Whole Year. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tufnell | 5.3 | .. | 21. 4 | .. | 5.3 |
| Upper Holloway | 6.0 | .. | .. | .. | 1.3 |
| Tollington | .. | 5.3 | .. | 7.4 | 2.6 |
| Lower Holloway | 3.2 | 62 | .. | 7.1 | 3.1 |
| Highbury | 4.0 | .. | 7.1 | .. | 2.9 |
| Barnsbury | 11.5 | .. | 2..2 | 2.6 | 3.8 |
| Islington, South East | 3.4 | .. | .. | .. | 0.7 |
| The Borough | 4.5 | 1.0 | 2.8 | 2 6 | 2-77 |
DIPHTHERIA.
This disease, inclusive of Membranous Croup, also showed a very large
decrease in the cases reported, as altogether only 455 were known as against
an annual corrected average of 793. They represented an attack rate of
1.34 per 1,00c, which is a decrease of ro per 1,000 on the decennial rate.
On only eight occasions during the year was the weekly return above the
average of the corresponding periods of the ten years immediately preceding,
namely in its 2nd, 4th, 12th, 17th, 22nd, 26th and 27th weeks.
In London the attack rate was 1.68, and in the Encircling Boroughs
r8o per 1,000, each of which are above the local rate.
Hospital Isolation.—Cases of this disease were also largely isolated, for
out of 455, 337, or 74.0 per cent., were removed to hospital, of which 30, or
8.9 per cent., died, as against 1 ro per cent. among those who remained at home.