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Islington 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND OTHER DISEASES (Cont'd):
| DISEASE. | TOTAIS. | Totsl Cases removed etc hospital. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eneephalitis Lethargica | Notified | – | – |
| Deaths | 4 | 4 | |
| Cerebro Spinal Fever | Notified | 10 | 10 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | Deaths Notified | 3 | 3 |
| Deaths | |||
| Dysentery | Notified | 7 | 7 |
| Deaths | 2 | 2 | |
| Malaria | Notified | 3 | 2 |
| Deaths | 2 | - | |
| Erysipelas | Notified | 111 | 62 |
| Deaths | 5 | ||
| Chicken Pox | Notified | 185 | 35 |
| Deaths | |||
| Measles | Notified | 46 | 9 |
| Deaths | |||
| Whooping Cough | Notified | 485 | 59 |
| Deaths | 12 | 9 | |
SMALIPOX AND VACCINATION: No case of smallpox was notified. Of the 3,874
births registered in Islington during 1938, 1,706 were successfully vaccinated.
(Figures for 1939 arc not yet available).
TUBSRCULOSIS: There were 448 new cases of pulmonary and 8.1 of non-pulmonary
tuberculosis. The total number of deaths from all forms of Tuberculosis was
254, the death rate being 0.93 per 1,000 of the average population.
TUBERCULOSIS NEW CASES AID MORTALITY DURING 1939.
| NEW CASES | DEATHS | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age Periods | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | ||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0- | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | |
| 1- | 3 | 3 | 8 | 2 | – | - | 3 | 2 |
| 5- | 6 | 7 | 11 | 10 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 15- | 56 | 69 | 7 | 13 | 15 | 19 | 6 | 3 |
| 25- | 61 | 55 | 8 | 9 | 35 | 27 | 2 | 2 |
| 35- | 34 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 27 | 10 | 2 | 1 |
| 45- | 48 | 16 | 2 | 21 | 10 | 1 | - | |
| 55- | 32 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 32 | 9 | - | 2 |
| 65 and upwards | 13 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 2 | – |
| 255 | 193 | 41 | 40 | 145 | 80 | 18 | 11 | |
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1930. The total number of eases of
tuberculosis in the Borough on 31st December, 1939, was 1,952. (Pulmonary
Hales 843, Females 685, Non-pulmonary - Males 201, Females 223).
DISPENSARY CASES: 293 specimens of sputum were examined.
Diagnosis Pulmonary Non-Pulmonary TOTAL GRAND
Adults Children Adults Children Adults Children TOTAL
M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. H. F. M. F.
D. Number of definite
cases of Tuberculosis
on the Dis- 560 457 43 38 53 81 49 47 613 538 92 85 1,328
pensary Registers at
the end of the year.