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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 1899
Forty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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1899] 148
HOSPITAL STATISTICS.
| Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diph-theria. | Enteric Fever. | Typhus Fever. | Other Diseases. | Total Admissions. | Total Deaths. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern | • • | 50 | 276 | 60 | • • | 40 | 426 | 66 |
| North Eastern | • • | 835 | 3 | • • | 71 | 909 | 24 | |
| North Western | • • | 88 | 99 | 58 | • • | 19 | 264 | 35 |
| Western | • • | 2 | 10 | 17 | • • | 1 | 30 | 3 |
| South Western | • • | 2 | • • | • • | • • | • • | 2 | • • |
| Fountain | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • |
| South Eastern | • • | 1 | 1 | • • | • • | • • | 2 | • • |
| Small Pox | • • | .. | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | |
| Northern Convalescent | • • | • • | •• | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • |
| Totals | • • | 978 | 386 | 138 | • • | 131 | 1,633 | 128 |
TRADES AND BUSINESS CARRIED ON IN INFECTED
HOUSES.
The table which accompanies this part of the report is sufficient
evidence of the great utility of and the necessity for the notification of
the infectious diseases. In every instance where disease was reported
stringent precautions were insisted on in the premises where they
occurred, but particularly so in the cases where Scarlet Fever appeared
in houses in which wearing apparel was made, cleaned, or repaired.
Indeed in these cases, if the patients were not allowed to be
removed to hospital, the business was stopped, for it must be
remembered that the Factory and Workshop Act, 1895, makes it
a penal offence to carry on business while the premises are infected
with either Smallpox or Scarlet Fever.