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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 1915

Sixtieth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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[1915

Table: Table XXIX.Showing theCases of Infectious Disease removed from Islingtonto theMetropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitalsfor treatment and isolation during1915.

Table XXIX.

Showing theCases of Infectious Disease removed from Islingtonto theMetropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals

for treatment and isolation during1915.

Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals.Small Pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Enteric Fever.Typhus Fever.*Other Diseases.Total Admissions.Total Deaths.
Eastern..147673..652829
North Eastern..616143....11187041
North Western..2552216..9757941
Western..11......2..
South Western..11....13..
The Grove..31......4..
Park Hospital..1........1..
South Eastern..124....3191
Joyce Green..89......3925
Convalescent Hospital..........• •..• •
Small Pox................
Totals..1,1254389..2801,85297

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*Including cases of Measles, Whooping Cough, Puerperal Fever, Cerebro-Spinal Fever and
Polio-Myelitis.
SMALL POX.
No case was known in the borough during the year. The last one was
notified in 1910.
SCARLET FEVER.
The notifications of this disease numbered 1,332, and were 142 above the
decennial average (1,190) of 1905-14; but were 521 less than the previous year,
1914. The attack-rate was equal to 4.21 per 1,000 of the civil population,
which is an increase of 0.58 on the mean rate (3.63) of the preceding ten years.
In the Sub-Districts—The incidence of the disease in the several subdistricts
varied from 106 cases in Lower Holloway to 331 in Barnsbury. In
Tufnell there was 120 cases, in Upper Holloway 147 cases, in Tollington 149