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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
Finsbury 1926
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1926
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treatment of ailing Finsbury children up to the age of 5 years.
The Borough Council pays £75 per annum retaining fee, and £2 per
week per cot when occupied by cases sent in under the agreement.
The new agreement terminates on the 1st October, 1927. The cots
have been occupied in 1926 by 18 ailing babies.
| Years. | 1912-17 | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | Totals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notifications | 53 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 112 |
| Deaths | 24 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 41 |
The cases of puerperal fever are investigated by the Assistant
Medical Officer of Health. The premises are visited, the sanitary
defects ascertained, and made the subject of notice for amendment.
If the patient is admitted to hospital, the rooms are disinfected
immediately after the patient's admission.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—Twelve cases were notified in 1926.
The children were all visited from the Public Health Department
and the mothers were shown how to carry out the treatment advised
by the doctors. Two of the patients were sent into hospital and
6 attended Moorfields Eye Hospital, and two attended University
College Hospital as out-patients. One case was attended by a
private doctor in the patient's home, and one case was reported
from an institution in the Borough. In no case was impairment
of vision reported.
DEATHS AND DEATH RATES.
The number of Finsbury residents who died in 1926 was 1,001;
equivalent to a death rate for the whole Borough of 12.9 per 1,000
inhabitants living. The death rate for the whole of London was
11.6 per 1,000.