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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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1916 ]
OTHER NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
Acute Poliomyelitis, Cerebrospinal Meningitis,Ophthalmia Neonatorum,
Tuberculosis, Plague and Cholera.
Acute Poliomyelitis.
Twelve cases were ascribed to this disease during the year, as contrasted with 15 in 1915. Two deaths, however, were registered.
| 1916. | 1915. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases. | Deaths. | Cases. | Deaths. | |
| 1st quarter | 1 | nil | 2 | nil |
| 2nd „ | 1 | 1 | 4 | „ |
| 3rd „ | 8 | 1 | 5 | „ |
| 4th „ | 2 | nil | 4 | „ |
| 12 | 2 | 15 | nil | |
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.
Thirty-nine cases were notified, or one case more than in 1915, In only
two of these cases had the patients been in direct contact with soldiers returned
from military camps. It is a noticeable fact that whereas before the war
(1907-14) the cases averaged 8 per annum, since the war began they have
averaged 40.
A return of the cases of the disease since it became notifiable is shown in the following statement:—
| 1907. | 1908. | 1909. | 1910. | 1911. | 1912. | 1913 | 1914. | 1915. | 1916. | Total Cases 1907-16. | Total Deaths. 1907-16 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st quarter | — | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 34 | 19 |
| 2nd „ | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 17 | 61 | 35 |
| 3rd „ | 5 | — | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | II | 8 | 36 | 20 |
| 4th „ | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | — | 4 | 7 | 30 | 18 |
| Year | 11 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 40 | 39 | 161 | 92 |
The deaths during the year numbered 20, and were equal to the very high
fatality of 51 per cent, of the cases notified.