Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1914
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Excluding those in public institutions the cases occurred in 772 houses as under:
Houses with one case | 602 |
„ „ two cases | 120 |
„ „ three „ | 32 |
„ four „ | 12 |
,, ,, five ,, | 3 |
,, ,, six ,, | 2 |
,, ,, seven ,, | 1 |
Isolation.—Of the cases notified, 967 or 93 per cent.
were removed to hospital for treatment.
In the autumn there was often considerable delay in
the removal of cases owing to the lack of accommodation
in the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and
a communication was addressed by the Council to the
Managers, urging them to re-open the Park Hospital
for the reception of infectious cases, as this hospital,
originally built as an infectious hospital, was being
used as a hospital for children in connection with Poor
Law Institutions in London.
Fatality, — During the first quarter the disease
maintained the mild type shown in 1913, and of the 638
cases notified in the last quarter of 1913 and the first
quarter of 1914, only one terminated fatally, but during
the later months there was a larger proportion of severe
toxic cases and 21 deaths were recorded during the year,
representing a case mortality of 2 per cent. compared
with 1.24 per cent. in 1912 and 0.4 per cent. in 1913.