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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1903]
Table XXV.
Diseases. | Years. | + Increase or – Decrease on mean of 10 years. | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1893. | 1894. | 1895. | 1896. | 1897. | 1898. | 1899. | 1900. | 1901. | 1902 | Mean 10 years. | 1903 | ||
Measles | 28 | 37 | 37 | 67 | 12 | 65 | 27 | 42 | 37 | 24 | 38 | – 9 | |
Whooping Cough | 70 | 72 | 34 | 103 | 58 | 67 | 66 | 68 | 38 | 76 | 65 | – 2 | |
Diarrhœa | 189 | 73 | 144 | 125 | 138 | 220 | 208 | 148 | 143 | 72 | 146 | – 63 | |
Syphilis | 21 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 17 | 10 | I I | 13 | – 3 | |
Tabes Mesenterica | 83 | 45 | 56 | 64 | 55 | 48 | 30 | 25 | 26 | 25 | 46 | – 26 | |
Phthisis | 28 | 27 | 28 | 17 | 15 | 18 | 27 | 27 | 18 | 16 | 22 | – 6 | |
Tubercular Meningitis | 21 | 17 | 46 | 28 | 23 | 29 | 30 | 25 | 24 | 20 | 26 | – 6 | |
Premature Births | 173 | 148 | 151 | 169 | 174 | 191 | 187 | 176 | 169 | 194 | 173 | + 1 | |
Other Developmental Diseases | 48 | 48 | 37 | 40 | 39 | 30 | 21 | 36 | 48 | 33 | 38 | + 11 | |
Erysipelas | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | ... | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | + 1 | |
Inflammation of Brain | 32 | 19 | 14 | 21 | 27 | 25 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 16 | 21 | – 3 | |
Convulsions | 75 | 71 | 63 | 74 | 60 | 46 | 62 | 57 | 68 | 69 | 64 | – 7 | |
Bronchitis | 138 | 121 | 125 | 141 | 129 | 129 | 124 | 119 | 104 | 116 | 125 | – 35 | |
Pneumonia | 74 | 88 | 97 | 129 | 86 | 87 | 112 | 118 | 123 | 134 | 105 | + 4 | |
Dentition | 19 | 23 | 29 | 25 | 21 | 23 | l6 | 25 | 24 | 16 | 22 | – 4 | |
Enteritis | 45 | 40 | 54 | 62 | 65 | 105 | 159 | 67 | 70 | 43 | 71 | – 25 | |
Gastritis | 4 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 21 | 21 | 23 | 13 | + 9 | |
Suffocation | 56 | 56 | 43 | 51 | 39 | 48 | 45 | 43 | 39 | 51 | 47 | – 12 | |
Debility | 102 | 71 | 112 | 68 | 76 | 76 | 81 | 53 | 40 | 65 | 74 | – 36 | |
Marasmus, Atrophy | 265 | 161 | 195 | 174 | 180 | 168 | 204 | 168 | 148 | 127 | 179 | – 34 | |
All other Diseases | 120 | 87 | 126 | 111 | 114 | 108 | 107 | 87 | 115 | 85 | 106 | – 6 | |
Totals | 1595 | 1229 | 1416 | 1490 | J338 | I5°4 | J548 | :344 | 1290 | 1219 | 1397 | 1136 | — 261 |