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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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Table LXXX.
| Quarter. | Cases Nursed at Home. | Cases Nursed at Hospital. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases. | Deaths. | Percentage Fatality. | Cases. | Deaths. | Percentage Fatality. | |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1St | 31 | 3 | 9.6 | 115 | 17 | 14.8 |
| 2nd | 32 | 6 | 18.7 | 107 | 5 | 4.7 |
| 3rd | 25 | 3 | 12.0 | 62 | 3 | 4.8 |
| 4th | 30 | 1 | 3.3 | 53 | 5 | 9.4 |
| Year | 118 | 13 | 11.0 | 337 | 30 | 8.9 |
Note.— In comparing columns 3 and 6 it must not be forgotten that it is only the mildest cases as
a rule which are retained at home, The worst cases are invariably hurried off to hospital.