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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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ZYMOTIC OR INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The number of deaths certified as due to the infectious diseases
named in the accompanying table, in 1908 was 229. The deathrate
was 2•4, that of London as a whole being 1.4.
Reference is made to these diseases in connection with Records of Disease but the number of deaths from each in the years 1901—1908, is here set out.
| Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | Enteric Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhœa. | 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 | |
| 1908 | — | 12 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 38 | 22 | 126 | 229 | |
CANCER AND MALIGNANT DISEASE.
During 1908, cancer, or malignant disease, was certified as the
cause of death in 87 cases. The death - rate from this cause was
0•90 per 1000.
Distributed according to age and sex, it was found that fewer
females died of the disease than males, and the bulk of the deaths,
as usually happens, occurred at ages over 25.
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