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Islington 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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[1912
SCARLET FEVER.
811 cases were notified, which were 315 below the corrected average
of the decennial period, 1902-11, and represented an attack-rate of 2.49 per
1,000 of the inhabihants, as contrasted with a mean rate of 3.45 in the 10 years
mentioned.
A chart is given on the opposite page which shows how the cases contrasted
from week to week with the decennial weekly average. It will be
noticed that they were almost invariably below it.
The subsequent Table shows that 688 houses were infected, as contrasted
with 650 in 1911, and 584 in 1910. Of these 688 infectcd houses, 592 had
only one case of scarlet fever in each of them, 78 houses had two cases, 15 had
three. 2 had four, and 1 had five.
| No. of cases. | 1 case in one house. | 2 cases in one house. | 3 cases in one house. | 4 cases in one house. | 5 cases in one house. | 6 cases in one house. | 7 cases in one house. | 8 cases in one house. | No. of houses infected. | ||
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