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Islington 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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A return of attacks of the disease during the past ten years is given in the following statement:—
| 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | Average 10 yrs. 1922-31 | 1932 | Total Deaths, 1922.31. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Quarter | 1 | 3 | — | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 18 |
| — | 2 | — | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 26 | |
| 3rd „ | — | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | — | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| 4th | — | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| Year | 3 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 19 | 66 |
The deaths during the year numbered 12, and were equal to the very high rate
of 63 per cent. of the cases notified.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES (LONDON) REGULATIONS, 1927.
Malaria, Dysentery, Acute Primary Pneumonia and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia.
Schedule dealing with Typhus, Relapsing and Enteric Fevers.
Regulations dealing with these diseases came into force on the 7th January,
1919.
Dysentery; and the alterations of the Regulations, to suit London, were fully dealt with in the Annual Report for 1927, pages 34 and 35. During the past five years the following cases were notified by medical practitioners to the Medical Officer of Health.
| 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malaria | — | 2 | Nil | 1 | 2 |
| Dysentery | 1 | 6 | Nil | 6 | 15 |
| Acute Primary Pneumonia | 288 | 397 | 323 | 370 | 254 |
| Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 50 | 122 | 36 | 115 | 87 |
| Total | 339 | 527 | 359 | 492 | 358 |
ISLINGTON (CHICKEN-POX) REGULATIONS, 1930.
The regulations came into operation on the 24th March, 1930, and from that
time to the end of this year 1,441 cases had been notified. In 1932 the
notifications were 429.
DYSENTERY.
Fifteen cases were notified during the year. Cases of this disease, especially
those occurring from Sonne Bacillus, are fairly frequently diagnosed if the child is
in attendance at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, where
special investigations are made. On the 16th February a Casualty Officer at the
Royal Northern Hospital informed the Medical Officer of Health by telephone that
it had been noted that a number of cases with diarrhoea had been attending the
out-patient department for treatment, and it was noted they came from a house in
Hampden Road, Holloway. Investigations were made, and as a result the District
Sanitary Inspector found that there had been in this particular building a long
series of cases of diarrhoea, which dated back to the 29th January, 1932, when a
child aged 14 months suffered from diarrhoea; he received no professional medical
attendance whatever, and had recovered. From personal investigations made by