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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
Finsbury 1903
Report on the public health of 1903
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1. F., 66 years. Phthisis 4 years. Fifteen years ago worked in
Orphanage at Bournemouth, where many of the inmates were
phthisical.
2. F., 19 years. Frequently visited the house of a man who was
suffering from Phthisis and subsequently died. She was engaged
to be married to the man's son, and spent a great deal of her time
in the house.
3. M., 11 years. Lived next door to a house in which a phthisical
patient lived. Had free access to the house for several years past.
4. F., 51 years. Intimate with two women suffering from Phthisis,
one next door and one in same street.
5. M., 23 years. Worked with two men who died of Phthisis.
6. F., 36 years. Frequently visited and sat up with sister-in-law, who
died of Phthisis.
7. M., 46 years. Worked with two men who have died of Phthisis
within the last seven years.
8. F., 4 years. Lived in house in which two persons, not related, died
of Phthisis in 1902.
The number of cases occurring in houses where other persons had been notified as suffering from, or had died from, Phthisis, was as follows:—
| Number of previous cases of Phthisis notified in former years, or having died in same house. | Totals. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One. | Two. | Three. | Four. | Five. | ||
| Notifications in 1903 | 50 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 69 |
| Deaths in 1903 | 31 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 46 |
| Totals | 81 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 115 |
From this table it will be evident that 115 eases, or 25 per
cent. of the total, occurred in houses already infected, and
that 10 occurred in houses where there had been no less
than live previous cases. Though the majority of these cases
were probably infected by members of their own family, they