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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 1916

Sixty-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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19161
HOSPITAL ISOLATION OF NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
There were 1,296 cases isolated in hospital, or 90 per cent. of the 1,439
cases which were notified during the year. Only 10 per cent. of the patients,
therefore, were nursed at home.
The percentage of cases treated in hospital during the preceding ten years
1906-15 averaged 84.3.
FATALITY FROM NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
By "Fatality" is meant the percentage proportion of deaths to attacks of
sickness.
During the year it was found that out of the 1,439 cases notified 87 deaths
occurred, or 6 per cent., which contrasts with an average percentage of 4.7 in
the preceding ten years 1906-15.