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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 1924
Sixty-ninth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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[1924
A return of attack of the disease during the past ten years is given in the following statement:—
| 1914 | 1915 | 1910 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | Average 10 yrs. 1914-23 | 1924 | Total Deaths, 1914-23. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Quarter | 2 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | – | 43 |
| 2nd | 3 | 13 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | _ | 51 |
| 3rd | 2 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | _ | _ | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| 4th | — . | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | —| | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | o | 4 | 10 |
| Year | 7 | 40 | 39 | 30 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 115 |
The deaths during the year numbered 4, and were equal to the high rate of
07 per cent, of the cases notified.
Public Health (Pneumonia, Malaria, Dysentery, etc.) Regulations, 1911).
These Regulations came into force on the 7th January, 1919, and during the 6 years the following cases were notified by medical practitioners to the Medical Officer of Health :
| 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malaria | 193 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Dysentery | 14 | 4 | — | 1 | 3 | — |
| Acute Primary Pneumonia | 12 | 34 | 47 | 77 | 120 | 119 |
| Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 12 | 22 | 25 | 67 | 58 | 65 |
| Pneumonia | 29 | 3 | — | — | – | — |
| Total | 200 | 80 | 80 | 147 | 183 | 185 |
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica and Acute Polio-Encephalitis.
These diseases became notifiable under an Order of the Local Government
P>oard on the 1st January, 1919, and during the year 39 cases of Acute Encephalitis
Lethargica were notified, 4 of which proved fatal. One case of Acute PolioEncephalitis
was known in the Borough.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum. Purulent Disease of the Eyes of Newly-born Children.
See page 9.
Tuberculosis.
During the year 666 cases of Tuberculosis in its different forms were notified.
'[ he attack-rate was equal to 194 per 1,000 of the civil population. This number
shows a decrease of 6 on the return of the previous year, and of 0.06 per 1,000 on
the attack-rate. It was also 41 below the number in 1922.
Respiratory (Pulmonary) Tuberculosis.—540 notifications were
received, of which 289 referred to males and 251 to females, and represented an
attack-rate of 1.57 per 1,000. The return was a decrease of 2 on that of 1923,
and 30 on 1922.