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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It may be of interest to note that of 151 cases of "notified"
Diphtheria, 24 (or 16.0 per cent.) were returned from the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospitals as not so suffering; out of 24
"notified" cases of Typhoid, 2 (or 9.0 per cent.) were returned;
and out of 499 cases of notified Scarlet Fever, 28 (or 5.6 per cent.)
were returned. This yields a total of 673 notified cases, out of
which 54 were returned as not correctly diagnosed, being only 8.0
per cent. The larger proportion of errors (namely, 57.5 per cent.)
have occurred at the general hospitals and not in private practice.
| Years. | No. of Cases. | No. of Deaths. |
|---|---|---|
| 1895—1900 | 18 | 0 |
| 1901 | 83 | 8 |
| 1902 | 187 | 32 |
| 1903 | 1 | 0 |
| 1904 | 3 | 3 |
| 1905 | - | — |
| 1906 | - | — |
| 1907 | — | — |
| Total | 307 | 43 |