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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Further particulars with regard to notifications will be found in
the Local Government Board Table III., at page 142.
The following table shows the amounts paid in fees for notifications under the Act since 1901.
| Year. | Amounts paid to Medical Practitioners. | Cost per 1,000 of Population. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| 1901 | 109 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 1902 (including Chicken Pox) | 17s | 16 | 6 | 1 | 14 | 8 |
| 1903 (including Chicken Pox) | 61 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 9 |
| 1904 (including Chicken Pox) | 80 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 2 |
| I905 | 71 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 10 |
| 1906 | 77 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 10 |
| 1907 | 68 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 3 |
| 1908 | 64 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 |
The number of patients removed to hospital as suffering from a
notifiable disease, and returned as not so suffering, was 56. The total
removals being 614, the percentage incorrectly diagnosed was
only 9.1, which, remembering the difficulties attending diagnosis in
many of these cases, is very low. The larger proportion of errors
(viz., 68.2 per cent.) occurred at the general hospitals, and not in
private practice.
As usual, most of the errors were in connection with Diphtheria—
166 notified and 36 returned (21.6 per cent.). Of 45 Typhoid cases
4 (8.9 per cent.); and of 403 Scarlet Fever cases, 16 (3.9 per cent.),
were returned.
Discharge Notices.—The number of certificates received from
the Metropolitan Asylums Board regarding the return of persons sent
to hospital with infectious diseases was 294, and referred to 432 cases.
Visits were paid to these cases, and it was found that apart from