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 1908
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1908 including annual report on factories and workshops
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TABLE III.
Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year 1908.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases Notified in Whole District. | Total Cases Notified in each Locality. | No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each Locality. | Total Cases removed to Hospital. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| Clerkenwell | St. Luke | St. Sepulchre | Clerkenwell | St. Luke | St. Sepulchre | |||||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | |||||||||
| Small-pox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cholera | — | — | —_ | —_ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 130 | 4 | 64 | 52 | 6 | 4 | — | 85 | 45 | — | 83 | 44 | — | 127 |
| Erysipelas | 90 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 62 | 3 | 65 | 25 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 187 | 4 | 104 | 241 | 28 | 9 | 1 | 239 | 147 | 1 | 235 | 142 | 1 | 378 |
| Typhus Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Enteric Fever | 41 | — | 2 | 13 | 4 | 22 | — | 22 | 19 | — | 19 | 19 | — | 38 |
| Relapsing Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Continued Fever | — | — | _ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Puerperal Fever | 4 | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | — | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — | 3 |
| Plague | — | — | — | — | — | — | _ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Totals | 654 | 11 | 173 | 320 | 46 | 100 | 4 | 416 | 237 | 1 | 340 | 206 | 1 | 547 |