Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1910
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The notifications and deaths of Finsbury cases of Phthisis since 1901 are appended:—
Total No. ofNotifications. | No. of Casesnotified per 10,000 of inhabitants. | Total No. of Deaths | Death Rate per 1,000. | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1901 | 70 | 6.9 | 216 | 2.12 |
1902 | 121 | 12.0 | 240 | 2.38 |
1903 | 219 | 21.8 | 223 | 2.21 |
1904 | 210 | 21.2 | 251 | 2.53 |
1905 | 178 | l8.1 | 215 | 2. l8 |
1906 | 217 | 22.2 | 232 | 2.38 |
1907 | 217 | 22.4 | 243 | 2.51 |
1908 | 220 | 22.9 | 221 | 2.30 |
1909 | 359 | 37.4 | 228 | 2.39 |
1910 | 319 | 33.7 | 166 | 1.75 |
These numbers refer to separate cases—separate individuals.
The actual number of notifications received in 1910 was 1033, but
of these many, sometimes 5 or 6, referred to the same patient.
The number of separate persons notified was 319, 189 males and
130 females. Of the whole number 188, or 58.9 per cent, were
poor law patients notified by poor law medical men. For these
188 persons there were received 649 notifications on admission and
readmission to the poor law infirmary, and 253 certificates on
discharge—a total of 902 notifications.
A single example of the movements of a typical poor law case
will render this matter clearer.