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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
City of London 1900
Report on the proceedings of the Public Health (Sanitary) Department of the Corporation of London during the year 1900
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Of the 196 cases of notifiable infectious disease
reported, 79.1 per cent, were removed to hospital
for treatment, the remaining 20.9 per cent, being
nursed at their own homes.
Removed to Hospital.
Treated at Home.
per cent.
per cent.
Scarlet Fever 81.9 18.1
Diphtheria 92-0 8.0
Enteric Fever 92.9 7.1
Erysipelas 7.1 92.9
Exclusive of erysipelas, 87.4 per cent, went to
hospital, against 63.5, 78.5, 83.9, 77.5, and 73.6
in the five preceding years. The great increase
above the percentage for last year, when the proportion
was abnormally low, was due to the
large number of enteric fever cases treated at
home last year in one establishment in the City.