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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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141 [1906
CONTINUED FEVER.
Only i case of this disease was notified, and it was treated in hospital.
The decennial average had been 3.
Table XCV.
| DISEASES. | YEARS | Corrected average number of cases. | 1906. | Increase or Decrease. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896. | 1897. | 1898. | 1899. | 1900. | 1901. | 1902. | 1903. | 1904. | 1905. | 1895-05. | |||
| Small Pox | 50 | 3 | ... | 3 | 2 | 50 | 276 | 9 | 17 | 3 + | 42 | 1 | -41 |
| Scarlet Fever | 2031 | 1577 | 1336 | 1494 | 1074 | 1286 | 1372 | 865 | I I46 | 1 I98 | 1366 | 1386 | +20 |
| Diphtheria | 1067 | 700 | 531 | 688 | 624 | 92 | 871 | 452 | 347 | 351 | 667 | 437 | —230 |
| Membranous Croup | 24 | 29 | 13 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 3 | ... | ... | 11 | 2 | —9 |
| Enteric Fever | 229 | 256 | 237 | 353 | 259 | 281 | 257 | 130 | 126 | 100 | 228 | 149 | - 79 |
| Typhus Fever | ... | ... | 2 | ... | 1 | 2 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | 1 | ... |
| Erysipelas | 385 | 312 | 279 | 350 | 285 | 285 | 357 | 227 | 280 | 252 | 307 | 274 | — 33 |
| Puerperal Fever | 30 | 27 | J9 | 33 | 16 | 34 | 19 | 19 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 24 | — 1 |
| Continued Fever | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | ... | ... | 3 | 1 | —2 |
| Relapsing Fever | 2 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Cholera | ... | 1 | ... | 3* | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Totals | 3824 | 2906 | 2418 | 2943 | 2276 | 2852 | 3164 | 1707 | 1941 | 1928 | 2650 | 2275 | —375 |
• English Cholera.
t 1 Case returned after a few days not Small Pox