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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 1905
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1905 including annual report on factories and workshops
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It may be of interest to note that of 140 cases of "notified"
Diphtheria, 14 (or 10 per cent.), were returned from the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospitals as not so suffering; out of 45 "notified"
cases of Typhoid 3 (or 6.6 per cent.) were returned; and out of 479
cases of notified Scarlet Fever, 23 (or 4.8 per cent.) were returned.
This yields a total of 604 notified cases, out of which 40 were
returned as not correctly diagnosed, being only 6.0 per cent.
small-pox.
There were no cases of Small-pox in Finsbury in 1905. The cases of Small-pox in Finsbury during the last decade have been as follows:-
| Years. | No. of Cases. | No. of Deaths. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1895-1900 | 18 | 0 | ||
| 1901 | 88 | 8 | ||
| 1902 | 187 | 32 | ||
| 1903 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 1904 | 13 | 3 | ||
| 1905 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 307 | 43 | ||
The incidence of Small-pox, since the Borough's formation, is shown in the following table:—
| No. of Casesper 10,000 of population. | No. of Deathsper 10,000 of population. | Case Mortality. No. of Deaths per 100 cases notified. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 8.6 | 0.98 | 11.4 | |
| 1902 | 18.6 | 3.2 | 17.1 | |
| 1903 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1904 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 23.1 | |
| 1905 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |