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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
Public Health (Pneumonia, Malaria, Dysentery, etc.) Regulations, 1919.
These Regulations came into force on the 7th January, 1919, and during the past 5 years the following cases were notified by medical practitioners to the Medical Officer of Health :
| 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | _ | — | ||
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica and Acute Polio.Encephalitis.
These diseases became notifiable under an Order of the Local Government
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Boardl on the 1st January, 1919. During the year 21 cases of Acute Encephalitis
Lethargica were notified, which is an increase of 4 cases on the return of the
previous year, whilst 9 deaths were registered; or 43 per cent, of the notified
cases.
The following summary indicates a marked increase in the number of cases, and also in the fatality of recent years :—
| Years. | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | Average (8 years). | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases | 8 | |||||||||
| Deaths |
No case of Acute Polioencephalitis was known in the Borough.
Ophthalmia Neonatorium. Purulent Disease of the Eyes of Newly.born Children.
See p. 11.
Tuberculosis.
During the year 704 cases of Tuberculosis in its different forms were notified.
The attack.rate was equal to 2.08 per 1,000 of the civil population. This number
shows a decrease of 181 on the return of the previous year, and of 0.53 per 1,000
on the attack.rate. It was, however, 38 above the number in 1924.