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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Table CVI.
Notified Cases Treated. | Percentages of Notified Cases Treated. | Deaths Occurring. | Percentages of Deaths Occurring. | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
In Hospitals. | At Home. | Total. | In Hospital. | At Home. | In Hospital. | At Home. | Total. | In Hospital. | At Home. | Total. | |
Small Pox | 9 | .. | 9 | 100.0 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | • • | |
Scarlet Fever | 756 | 109 | 865 | 87.4 | 12.6 | 23 | 1 | 24 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 2 8 |
Diphtheria | 337 | 118 | 455 | 74.0 | 26.0 | 30 | 13 | 43 | 8.9 | 11.0 | 9.4 |
Enteric (Typhoid Fever) | 100 | 30 | 130 | 76.9 | 23.1 | 11 | 11 | 22 | 11.0 | 36.7 | 16.9 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Erysipelas | 34 | 193 | 227 | 15.0 | 85.0 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 2.9 | 4.1 | 3.9 |
Puerperal Fever | *4 | 17 | 21 | 10 6 | 89.4 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 100.0 | 29.4 | 42.8 |
Continued Fever | 1 | 1 | 2 | 50.0 | 50.0 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 100.0 | 50.0 |
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Total | *1,241 | 468 | 1.709 | 72 6 | 27.4 | 69 | 39 | 108 | 5.5 | 8.3 | 6.3 |
*Including 2 cases which had not been notified.