Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Sixtieth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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[1915
Registration Sub-Districts.—The total number of cases notified in these districts was as follows:—
Total Cases Notified. | |
---|---|
Tufnell | 200 |
Upper Holloway | 245 |
Tollington | 237 |
Lower Holloway | 193 |
Highbury | 319 |
Barnsbury | 485 |
Islington South-East | 531 |
Total | 2,210 |
Wards —The total number of cases notified in the Wards was as under:—
Total Cases Notified. | |
---|---|
Tufnell | 200 |
Upper Holloway | 245 |
Tollington | 237 |
Lower Holloway | 193 |
Highbury | 196 |
Mildmay | 123 |
Thornhill | 292 |
Barnsbury | 193 |
St. Marys | 110 |
Canonbury | 241 |
St. Peters | 180 |
Total | 2,210 |
The figures for each of the infectious diseases and the average for each during the ten years 1905-1914, together with the departures from it, were as follows:—
1915. | Average 10 years. | Increase or decrease | |
---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | — | 1 | - 1 |
Scarlet Fever | 1,332 | 1,190 | + 142 |
Diphtheria | 620 | 494 | + 126 |
Membranous Croup | 4 | 4 | — |
Enteric Fever | 28 | 86 | - 58 |
Typhus „ | — | — | — |
Erysipelas | 203 | 245 | - 42 |
Puerperal Fever | 23 | 20 | + 3 |
2,210 | 2,040 | + 170 |