Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Forty-eighth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington
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DISEASES. | YEARS. | Corrected average number of cases. | Increase or Decrease. | ||||||||||
1893. | 1894. | 1895. | 1896. | 1897. | 1898. | 1899. | 1900. | 1901. | 190?. | 1893-02. | |||
Small Pox ... | Il8 | 90 | 25 | 50 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 50 | 276 | —54 | |||
Scarlet Fever | 1493 | 2031 | 1577 | 1336 | ro74 | 1372 | 1645 | —780 | |||||
Diphtheria ... | 855 | 843 | 564 | 902 | 871 | 775 | —323 | ||||||
Membranous Croup.. | 30 | 24 | 24 | 13 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 18 | — 15 | |||
Enteric Fever | 2SI | 245 | 229 | 353 | 259 | 281 | 257 | —128 | |||||
Typhus Fever | I | I | 5 | 1 | 2 | I | —1 | ||||||
Erysipelas ... | 672 | 395 | 385 | 35o | 285 | 357 | 369 | ||||||
Puerperal Fever | 38 | 30 | 19 | 33 | 34 | 19 | 26 | —7 | |||||
Continued Fever ... | 7 | 7 | 9 | I | 2 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 5 | —3 | |||
Relapsing Fever | |||||||||||||
Cholera | I | 3* | |||||||||||
Totals | 4853 | 2906 | 2418 | 2852 | —1453 |
• English Cholera.