London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1907
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1907 including annual report on factories and workshops
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an exposure often brought about by the inconveniences of the
tenement housing system. It is also partly clue to alcoholic
excesses and partly to the exigencies of occupation in Finsbury.
From Table IV. (page 162) it will be seen that what may be
called the tragic causes of death—alcoholism, accident, overlaying,
and suicide—amounted, as a direct cause of death, to
118. There were 17 deaths due to suicide.
DEATHS FROM ZYMOTIC OR INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
| Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | Enteric Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Total. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 8 | 19 | 36 | 11 | 4 | 49 | 37 | 95 | 259 |
| 1902 | 32 | 15 | 37 | 9 | 6 | 83 | 68 | 84 | 334 |
| 1903 | — | 12 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 69 | 52 | 100 | 260 |
| 1904 | 3 | 17 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 60 | 26 | 145 | 278 |
| 1905 | — | 21 | 11 | 9 | — | 31 | 32 | 111 | 215 |
| 1906 | — | 13 | 25 | 14 | 5 | 115 | 55 | 144 | 371 |
| 1907 | — | 16 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 43 | 44 | 66 | 187 |
These returns yield a zymotic death rate of 1.9 per 1,000 as
compared with 1.4 for London as a whole. The amount paid
to medical practitioners for furnishing notification certificates
was £68 19s. 6d., as against £77 5s. in 1906. The Local
Authority is recouped for this expenditure by the Metropolitan
Asylums Board. The fees paid for Voluntary Notification of|
Phthisis amounted to £15 is. 6d.