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30
1929]
PREVENTION OF INFECTION.
Notification, Isolation, Fatality, or Specified Diseases under the
Provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
The Principal Diseases Include :—
Small Pox, Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Enteric Fever, Typhus Fever,
Puerperal Fever and Erysipelas.
2,439 cases of the principal diseases which are notifiable under the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, came to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of
Health. This number does not include other communicable ailments, which are
also notifiable. The complete list of infectious diseases which are notifiable in
Islington will be found on page 36.
The total cases notified are 179 more than those of the previous year (2,260),
and 5 above the average (2,434) of the preceding ten years. The increases when
contrasted with the decennial averages are to be found in the returns from Small
Pox, Membranous Croup, Diphtheria, Enteric Fever, Erysipelas, and Puerperal
Fever, and Continued Fever, which were respectively 71, 1, 53, 3, 14, 10 and 1
above the average, while Scarlet Fever showed a decrease of 148 cases on the ten
years' average.
The 2,439 cases were equal to an attack-rate of 7.62 per 1,000 of the civil
population.

SMALL-POX.
In the previous year, 1928, outbreaks of Smallpox were limited in Islington
to four cases. This year, 1929, we had 71 notified, the disease, however, affecting
70 persons, as one of these was notified, admitted to hospital, retained nine days,
was subsequently re-notified and re-admitted. Of the 70 persons enumerated, 56
were unvaccinated, 12, all over 25 years of age, were vaccinated in infancy only,
and in two casse the state of vaccination was not known, or doubtful.