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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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Table CXIV.—continued.
| TRADES AND BUISNESS. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever or i Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Memb. Croup. | Enteric (Typhoid Fever). | Typhus Fever. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Cholera. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hatters | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Hairdressers | 5 | 5 | ||||||||
| Hosiers | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||||||
| Haberdashers | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Laundry | 2 | 1 | 8 | |||||||
| Laundry Receiving Office | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Ladies Underclothing | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| Mangling | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Milk Shop | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| Millinery | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Marine Store Dealers | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Mantle Makers | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| Net Making | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Newsagents | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |||||
| Nursing Home | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Oil and Color Merchants | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| Public House | 4 | 6 | ||||||||
| Provisions | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Printers | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| Purse Making | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Refreshment Rooms | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| School | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Stable | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| SweetstufF Shop | 4 | 1 | 5 | |||||||
| Stewed Eel Shop | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Surgery | 3 | 2 | ||||||||
| Scale Makers | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Surgical Instrument Makers | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Skin Dressing | 1 | |||||||||
| Stamp Making | 1 | |||||||||
| Tailor | 5 | 3 | 8 | |||||||
| Tobacconist | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
| Tie Making | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Umbrella Makers | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Upholstery | 1 | |||||||||
| Wardrobe Dealers | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Washing | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Wood Chopping | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Whalebone Cutting | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Totals | 136 | 60 | 9 | 36 | 241 |
OCCUPATIONS OF PATIENTS.
The occupations of the different patients attacked by the notifiable diseases
was ascertained in every case, and where the disease occurred among
people who were engaged on work that might convey the infection, communications
were addressed to their employers, so that in many instances it was
discontinued.