Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Sixty-fifth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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1920] 34
Tuberculosis.
During the year 780 cases of Tuberculosis in its different forms were
notified. The attack-rate was equal to 2.32 per 1,000 of the civil population.
This number shows a decrease of 100 on the return of the previous year, and
of 0.35 per 1,000 on the attack-rate. It was also 409 below the number
in 1918.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis.—663 notifications were received, of which
381 referred to males and 282 to females, and represented an attack-rate of
1.97 per 1,000. The return was a decrease of 96 on that of 1919, and 343
on 1918.
Registration Sub-Districts. | Wards. | Pulmonary Phthisis. | Other Forms of Tuberculosis. | Grand Total. | Tuberculosis Rate per 1000 of Population. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Males | Females | Total. | Males | Females | Total. | ||||
Tufnell | Tufnell | 29 | 35 | 64 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 80 | .. |
Upper Holloway | Upper Holloway | 44 | 27 | 71 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 85 | .. |
Tollington | Tollington | 18 | 34 | 52 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 63 | .. |
Lower Holloway | Lower Holloway | 42 | 14 | 56 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 70 | .. |
Highbury | Highbury | 25 | 22 | 47 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 53 | .. |
Mildmay | 30 | 20 | 50 | 1 | .. | 1 | 51 | .. | |
Barnsbury | Thornhill | 45 | 31 | 76 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 92 | .. |
Barnsbury | 23 | 15 | 38 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 48 | .. | |
Islington South-East | St. Mary's | 29 | 26 | 55 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 59 | .. |
Canonbury | 50 | 22 | 72 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 85 | .. | |
St. Peter's | 46 | 36 | 82 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 94 | .. | |
Total | 381 | 282 | 663 | 74 | 43 | 117 | 780 | 2.32 |