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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
Islington 1906
Fifty-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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189 1906
PUERPERAL FEVER.
Twenty-five cases of this disease were known, and represented 277 per
1,000 of the women who had been delivered of children during the year.
This number exactly coincides with the decennial annual average. The
attack-rate is slightly in excess of that of the Encircling Districts, in which it
was i-go, and of London, in which it was 2*38 per 1,000 births.
Hospital Isolation.—Only 8 cases were removed to hospital, or 32 per
cent, of the entire number.
Fatality.—The number of deaths was it, or 44 per cent., as compared
with 25 per cent, in the preceding year, which was a remarkably low rate.
In 1904 the fatality was as high as 56 per cent.; in 1903, 47-3 ; in 1902, 54*5 per
cent.; in 1901, 44*3 percent.; while from 1891 to 1900 it averaged 38-o per cent.
| Sub-Districts. | 1st Quarter. | 2nd Quarter. | 3rd Quarter. | 4th Quarter. | Whole Year. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tufnell | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 |
| Upper Holloway | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 |
| Tollington | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Lower Holloway | .. | 4 | .. | .. | 4 |
| Highbury | 2 | 1 | .. | 1 | 4 |
| Barnsbury | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| Islington, South East | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 3 |
| The Borough | 6 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 24 |