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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] 114
PUERPERAL FEVER.
This disease, so fatal to women, was responsible for 19 cases, which are
7 below the average of ten years, and are equal to a rate of 2.11 per 1,000
women delivered of children during the year; compared with a rate of 2.72
during the preceding ten years.
In London the rate was 1.78 per 1,000 births and in the Encircling
Boroughs rg2.
Hospital Isolation.—Out of 21 cases only 4, or 10.6 per cent., were
removed to hospital.
Fatality.—There were 9 deaths, or 42.8 per cent. of the cases. In 1902
the rate was 54.5 per cent.

Table: Table LXXXVIII.Showing the Sickness fromPueperal Feverin the Sub-Districts for each Quarter and for the Year.

Table LXXXVIII.

Showing the Sickness fromPueperal Feverin the Sub-Districts for each Quarter and for the Year.

Sub-Districts.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Whole Year,
Tufnell1....23
Upper Holloway121..4
Tollington..1....1
Lower Holloway2..114
Highbury..2125
Barnsbury..1....1
Islington, South East..1....1
The Borough473519