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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 1926
Seventy-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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1926]
OTHER NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
The diseases which are notifiable in Islington include those which have since
been added by Order, and the complete list is as follows : Small Pox, Cholera,
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup, Erysipelas, the disease known as Scarlatina or
Scarlet Fever, the fevers known by any of the following names : Typhus, Typhoid,
Enteric, Relapsing, Continued or Puerperal, and also the following infectious
diseases : Anthrax, Acute Encephalitis Lethargica, Acute Polio.Encephalitis, Acute
Poliomyelitis, Acute Primary Pneumonia, Acute Influenzal Pneumonia, Cerebrospinal
fever or Epidemic Cerebro.spinal Meningitis, Dysentery, Glanders or
Farcy, Hydrophobia or Rabies, Malaria, Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Plague, Trench
Fever, and Tuberculosis.
| 1926 | 1925 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases. | Deaths. | Cases. | Deaths. | |
| 6 | ||||
Epidemic Cerebro.Spinal Meningitis.
Eleven cases were notified, being as against six in 1925. During the ten
years 1916.25, the cases averaged 14 per annum.
A return of attacks of the disease during the past ten years is given in the following statement:
| 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1926 | Average 10 yrs. 1916.25 | 1926 | Total Deattis, 1916.26. | |
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The deaths during the year numbered 11 and were equal to the very high rate
of 100 per cent, of the cases notified.