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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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162
1906]
severer cases that are sent away. It will be interesting to note that the
fatality from this disease in the Metropolitan Asylum Board hospitals has
gradually fallen from 29.3 per cent. in 1894 to 8.3 in 1905, which result is
generally ascribed to the anti-toxin treatment.
Enteric Fever.—Out of the 149 notified cases, 122 or 81.9 per cent.
were treated in hospital and of these 72 were isolated in the Metropolitan
Asylums Board hospitals.

Table: Table CIX.Showing the number ofCases of Infectious Disease removedfrom Islington to theMetropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitalsfor treatment and isolation during1906.

Table CIX.

Showing the number ofCases of Infectious Disease removedfrom Islington to theMetropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitalsfor treatment and isolation during1906.

Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals.Small Pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Enteric Fever.Typhus Fever.Other Diseases.Total Admissions.Total Deaths.
Eastern..311912266
North Eastern..7708136..7596223
Northwestern..35616217..5158637
Western..........33..
Southwestern................
The Grove................
South Eastern................
Convalescent Hospital..............*2
Small Pox................
Totals..1,1292447211311,57768

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* 1 Scarlet Fever from N.E. 1 Scarlet Fever from N.E. in 1905.