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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 1920

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

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Table: Showing the number of Cases and Attack-Rates of the several Notifiable Infectious Diseaseswhich eccurred during each of the Ten Years 1910-19 and in 1920.

Showing the number of Cases and Attack-Rates of the several Notifiable Infectious Diseaseswhich eccurred during each of the Ten Years 1910-19 and in 1920.

DISEASES.YEARSAverage number of cases 1910-191920Increase or Decrease.
1910191119121913191419151916191719181919
Small PoxCases1.....................22.........
Rate0.00.....................0.000.00.........
Scarlet FeverCases7308048111317185313326384784321084948307+359
Rate2.222.462.493.975.714.212.061.611.513.293.003.89+0.88
DiphtheriaCases4635905125466516205875565146455681324+756
Rate1.411.8o1.571.652.011.961.901.871.801.961.813.94+ 2.13
Membranous CroupCases834484654454-1
Rate0.030.010.010.010.020.010.020.020.010.010.020.01-0.01
Enteric FeverCases897349507628322330164724-23
Rate0.270.220.150.150.230.090.100.080.100.50.50.07-0.08
Typhus FeverCases1....................................
Rate0.00....................................
ErysipelasCases212275185226334203155172141212212l65-47
Rate0.840.840.570.681.030.640.500.580.490.640.670.49-0.18
Puerperal Fever*Cases20141628252321l64292029+9
Rate2.441.761.953.413.103.482.892.740.770.462.773.08+0.31
Continued FeverCases???........................1.........
Rate0.00........................0.00.........
TotalsCases152517591577217129472210143912501127199318002853+1053
Rates4.655.374.836.549.086.984.654.213.936.055.698.49+2.80

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Per 1,000 Registered Births.