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[1906
ISOLATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN HOSPITAL.
Out of the 2,276 cases that were notified, 1,755, or 77.1 per cent., were
treated in hospital and 521, or 22.9 per cent., remained at home.
Out of a total of 1,755 cases of notifiable epidemic sickness which were
treated in hospitals, as many as 1,577, or 89.9 per cent., were treated in the
Metropolitan Asylums Board's hospitals.
Altogether 115 deaths occurred among the notified cases of epidemic
diseases, of which 82, or 4.6 per cent., occurred in hospitals, and 33, or 6.3 per
cent., at home.
The Metropolitan Asylums Board's hospitals into which the cases were
received are fully set out in Table CIX.
It should be pointed out that the 77.1 per cent. of the notified cases
treated in hospital in 1906 is the highest figure which has hitherto obtained
in Islington, as the following statement shows:—
1896 48.4
1897 55.7
1898 58.4
1899 64.6
1900 68.2
1901 69.6
1902 71.9
1903 72.6
1904 75.5
1905 76.1
1906 77.1
Small Pox.— Only 1 case was known. The patient was a traveller who
contracted the disease at Bilbao, and he was isolated in South Mimms
Private Small Pox Hospital for treatment.
Scarlet Fever.—1,226 out of 1,386 known cases, or 88.4 per cent., were
removed to hospital, leaving only 160, or 11.6 per cent., to be attended to at
home. This is the largest percentage of Scarlet Fever cases that has hitherto
been isolated in hospital.
Diphtheria.—Here again the percentage of cases treated in hospital was
high, as 344 out of 439 notified cases, or 78.3 per cent., were removed for
isolation and treatment; thus leaving only 95 cases, or 21.7 per cent., at home.
It must be notified that while 6.4 per cent. of the cases died in hospital,
10.5 died at home, and that too, despite the fact that, as a rule, it is the
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