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Stoke Newington 1918
Report of the Medical Officer of Health and Public Analyst for the year 1918
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METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF STOKE NEWINGTON
Year ending December 31st, 1918.
TABLE II.
CLASSIFICATION AND DETAILED STATISTICS OF ATTENDANCES, E tc.
| Insured Persons Male | Insured Persons Female | Uninsured Persons Male | 1 Uninsured Persons Female | Contacts. | Total. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | ||||||||
| i. | u. | I. | u. | ||||||
| New patients attending | 66 | 15 | 41 | 19 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 26 | 202 |
| Attendances of old patients | 399 | 130 | 229 | 306 | o | 39 | 2 | 47 | 1,154 |
| Patients visited in their homes | 2 | — | — | 5 | — | — | — | — | 4 3 (new (old) |
| Specimens of Sputa examined | 26 | 9 | 17 | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | 55 |
Specimens of sputa examined 55
Tubercle Bacilli found in 25
ACUTE POLIO.MYELITIS AND CEREBRO.SPINAL
FEVER.
Cerebro.spinal Fever is by far the more fatal of the two. Four
cases were notified in the Borough during 1918; and no case of
Polio.myelitis. There were 4 deaths from the former.