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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 1919

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

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Table: Showing the number ofCasesandAttack-Ratesof the severalNotifiable Infectious Diseaseswhich occurred during each o) the Ten Years1909-18and in1919.

Showing the number ofCasesandAttack-Ratesof the severalNotifiable Infectious Diseases

which occurred during each o) the Ten Years1909-18and in1919.

DISEASES.YEARSAverage numbsr of cases.Increase or Decrease.
19091910191119121913191419151916191719181909-181919
Small PoxCases31.....................212+ 1
Rate0.010.01.....................0.000.000.00...
Scarlet FeverCases12857308048ll1317185313326384784329681084+116
Rate3.912.222.462.493.975.71JJ 4.2I2.061.611.513.053.29+0.24
DiphtheriaCases42546359051254665162058755651454664 s4- q
Rate1.291.41I1.801.571.652.011.961.901.871.801.721.96+ 0.24
Membranous CroupCases583448465454— 1
Rate0.010.030.010.010.010.020.010.020.020.010.010.01- 0.00
Enteric FeverCases958973495076283223305516-39
Rate0.290.270.220.150.150.230.090.100.080.100.170.05-0.12
Typhus FeverCases11.................................
Rate0.000.00.................................
ErysipelasCases2212122751.85226334203155172141212212...
Rate0.670.840.840.570.681.030.640.500.580.490.670.64...
Puerperal Fever*Cases142014l6282523211641829+11
Rate1712.441.761.953.413.103.482.892740.770.240.46+ 0.22
Continued FeverCases...1........................11...
Rate...0.00........................0.000.00...
TotalsCases204915251759157721712947221014391250112718051993+ 188
Rates6.234.655.374.836.549.086.984.654.213.935.696.05+ 0-46

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* Per 1,000 Registered Births.