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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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1919] 38
OTHER NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
Acute Poliomyelitis, Cerebrospinal Meningitis, Encephalitis Lethargica,
Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Tuberculosis and Measles.
Acute Poliomyelitis
Three cases were ascribed to this disease during the year, as contrasted with 5 in 1918. One death, however, was registered.
| 1919. | 1918. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases. | Deaths. | Cases. | Deaths. | |
| 1st quarter | nil | nil | nil | nil |
| 2nd | ||||
| 3rd,, | 2 | |||
| 4th ,, | 1 | 1 | 4 | nil |
| 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis
Sixteen cases were notified, or two cases more than in 1918. In only
one of these had the patient been in direct contact with a soldier who
had been sent home on leave from a military camp. During the ten years
1909-18 the cases averaged 18 per annum.
A return of attacks of the disease during the past ten years is given in the following statement:—
| 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | Average ten years. 1909-18 | 1919 | Total Deaths. 1909-19 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st quarter 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 8 | J9 |
| 2nd „ 3 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 51 |
| 3rd „ 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 16 | |
| 4th „ 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | — | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Nil | 18 |
| Year 10 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 40 | 39 | 30 | 16 | 18 | 16 | 124 |
The deaths during the year numbered 10, and were equal to the very
high rate of 62 per cent, of the cases notified.
Public Health (Pneumonia, Malaria, Dysentery, etc.),
Regulations, 1919.
These Regulations came into force on the 7th January, 1919, and
during the year the following cases were notified by medical practitioners to
the Medical Officer of Health.
Malaria 193
Dysentery 14
Acute Primary Pneumonia 12
Influenzal Pneumonia 12
Pneumonia 29
Total 260