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Islington 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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[1913
TYPHUS FEVER.
No case was known.
ERYSIPELAS.
To Erysipelas was ascribed 226 cases of illness, which represented an
attack rate of 0.68 per thousand of the inhabitants.
The cases are 14 below the average of the preceding 10 years, while the
rate is 015 below the mean rate of 1903-12. The cases are considerably in
excess of those that were known in 1912, when only 185 were notified, which
was the lowest number ever recorded in the Borough. Indeed, the figures
were such as one could not well expect to occur again.
Hospital Isolation. —Of the 226 cases notified, 62 were treated in
hospital, so that 27.4 per cent, were isolated.
Fatality.—The 9 deaths represented a fatality rate of 4 0 per cent.,
which is 1.3 higher than that of the preceding year.