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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
Finsbury 1912
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1912
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fever 8 (74), erysipelas 143 (223), puerperal fever 12 (4), ophthalmia
neonatorum 7, polio myelitis 7, and typhus fever one case.
The figures in brackets refer to the year 1911.
The numbers for previous years are appended:—
| Year. | Number of Notifications Received. | Notifications per 1,000 of the population. | Percentage of Cases removed to Hospital. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 1,101 | 10.8 | 85.5 |
| 1902 | 1,026 | 10.2 | 82.4 |
| 1903 | 566 | 5.7 | 78.8 |
| 1904 | 609 | 6.2 | 72.5 |
| 1905 | 745 | 7. 7 | 81.8 |
| 1906 | 764 | 8.08 | 76.9 |
| 1907 | 735 | 7.8 | 83.4 |
| 1908 | 654 | 7.1 | 83.6 |
| 1909 | 534 | 5.9 | 74.7 |
| 1910 | 455 | 5.1 | 63.5 |
| 1911 | 640 | 7.3 | 61 .4 |
| 1912 | 467 | 5.4 | 72.1 |
The above table excludes notifications of Chicken-Pox—there were 203 in 1907 and 181 in 1911.
The amount paid in fees this year for notifications of infectious
disease was £41 12s. 6d., and is the lowest yet recorded.
The highest was £175 16s. 0d., in 1902, at the time of the small
pox epidemic. The sums paid for notifications of phthisis were,
Poor Law, £22 15s. 9d.; private doctors and members of hospital
staffs, £34 19s. 6d. The fees paid under the Diphtheria Antitoxin
(London) Order, 1910, amounted to £5 7s. 6d.
Diagnosis.—In 21 cases out of a total number of 321, the
patients after admission to a fever hospital were returned home
as not suffering, at the time of admission, from any notifiable
infectious disease.