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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 1909

Fifty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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139
[1909
CONTINUED FEVER.
No case was notified. As a general rule it is notified as Enteric
Fever. Formerly, when there was a doubtful case, medical men notified it as
Continued Fever, but now bacteriological examinations and blood tests enable
them to arrive at a more correct diagnosis.

Table: Table XCVII. Showing. the number of Cases of the several Notifiable Infectious Diseaseswhich occurred during each of the Ten Years 1899-1908 and in 1909.

Table XCVII. Showing. the number of Cases of the several Notifiable Infectious Diseaseswhich occurred during each of the Ten Years 1899-1908 and in 1909.

Scarlet Fever14941074128613728651146119813861216140912831285+2
Diphtheria688624902871452347351437480552584425—
Membranous Croup179973......21865— 1
Enteric Fever353259281257130126100149929719095—95
Typhus Fever...12......1...1......11...
Erysipelas350285285357227280252274252235288221—67
Puerperal Fever331634191924242421172414—10
Continued Fever26352......1112...—2
Relapsing Fever.......................................
Cholera3*....................................
Totals294322762852316417071941192822752063228924152049—366

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*English Cholera.
† Case returned after a few days not Small Pox.