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Previous Infirmary or Hospital treatment or not:—
No previous infirmary or hospital treatment 49
Previous treatment at one hospital or infirmary 33
Do. two do. 10
Do. three do. 2
Total 94
If the patient has not been removed to hospital or infirmary this is advised if
thought desirable. A copy of our leaflet is left with the patient, which gives brief
general directions for the prevention of the spread of the disease. The premises also
are inspected and notice served for any sanitary defects that are found. After death or
removal to infirmary or hospital, disinfection is advised. Consent for this was,
however, obtained in only 80 cases.
SPITTING.
During the year 1904, cards of warning requesting abstention from the dangerous
and objectionable habit of spitting were sent to all the Common Lodging Houses and
Public Houses in the Borough, and to all the workshops in which more than ten
people were employed.
INFLUENZA.
During the year there were only 7 deaths registered as due to influenza—1 in
St. Giles and Bloomsbury, and 6 in the Holborn Division.
ALCOHOLISM.
Only 21 deaths were assigned to alcoholism or cirrhosis of the liver, 12 in St. Giles
and Bloomsbury and 9 in the Holborn Division. These represent only a small
proportion of the deaths really caused by alcoholism as they are frequently registered
under the headings of other secondary causes.
CANCER.
Forty-nine deaths were registered as due to cancer or malignant disease, 30
belonging to St. Giles and Bloomsbury and 19 to the Holborn Division.
Further details as to the causes of and ages at death are given in Table IV. of
the Appendix.