Sixty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington page 33

Islington 1919

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

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33 [1919
Puerperal Fever. —Twenty-nine cases were notified, being in the
proportion of 4.62 per 1,000 births. The notifications were 11 above the average
(18) of the preceding ten years, and showed an increase of 2.22 in the
proportion of attacks to 1,000 births.
The deaths numbered 13, which represented a fatality of 44.8 per cent.
The deaths occurring in hospital numbered 10, and equalled a fatality rate of
50 per cent- of the cases treated.

Table: Cases ofPuerperal Fevernotified and inquired into during the year1919.

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Cases ofPuerperal Fevernotified and inquired into during the year1919.

	Tufnell.	Upper Holloway	Tollington	Lower Holloway.	Highbury	Barnsbury	Islington South-East	The Borough.
Cases notified by Doctor	6	4	1	1	5	5	7	29
Patient delivered by Doctor	2	1	..	..	1	1	..	5*
„ „ by Midwife	4	2	..	i	3	1	3	14*
Cases inquired into	3	3	..	i	4	4	4	19
,, treated in Hospital	4	2	1	..	2	4	6	19
„ treated at Home	2	2	..	1	3	1	1	10

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* Seven cases were also removed to hospital and three miscarriages occurred, but no
information as to delivery of patients could be obtained.
FATALITY FROM THE NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES
By " Fatality" is meant the percentage proportion of deaths to attacks of
sickness.

Table: During the year it was found that or the 1,99.5 cases notified 95 deaths occurred, or 4.8 per cent., which contrasts with an average percentage of 4.7 in the preceding ten years 1909-18.

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During the year it was found that or the 1,99.5 cases notified 95 deaths occurred, or 4.8 per cent., which contrasts with an average percentage of 4.7 in the preceding ten years 1909-18.

Years.	Cases.	Deaths.	Fatality.
1909	2,049	87	4.2
1910	1,525	79	5.2
1911	1,759	104	5.9
1912	1,577	62	3.9
1913	2,171	76	3.5
1914	2,947	112	3.8
1915	2,210	118	5.3
1916	1,439	87	6.0
1917	1,251	55	4.4
1918	1,125	67	6.0
Total	18,053	847	4.7
1919	1,913	95	4.8

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Islington 1919

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Table: Cases ofPuerperal Fevernotified and inquired into during the year1919.

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Table: During the year it was found that or the 1,99.5 cases notified 95 deaths occurred, or 4.8 per cent., which contrasts with an average percentage of 4.7 in the preceding ten years 1909-18.