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Islington 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE III. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1908.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases notified in whole Distbict. | Total Cases notified in each Locality. | No. of Cases removed to h08pital from each Locality. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | St. Giles and Bloomsbury. | Holborn. | St. Giles and Bloomsbury. | Holborn. | ||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5 | 6 to 16. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | ||||||
| Small—pox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cholera | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 50 | 4 | 19 | 15 | 7 | 5 | — | 21 | 29 | 20 | 29 |
| Erysipelas | 46 | 3 | — | 3 | 5 | 30 | 5 | 28 | 18 | 11 | 9 |
| Scarlet Fever | 193 | 1 | 61 | 96 | 23 | 12 | — | 81 | 112 | 79 | 111 |
| Typhus Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Enteric Fever | 25 | — | 1 | 2 | 10 | 12 | —— | 12 | 13 | 10 | 12 |
| Relapsing Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Continued Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Puerperal Fever | 2 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | — | 1 | — |
| Plague | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cerebro—Spinal Meningiti s | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Totals | 316 | 8 | 81 | 116 | 46 | 60 | 5 | 144 | 172 | 121 | 161 |
Note.—The Isolation Hospitals are those of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and the London Fever
Hospital. A few cases are treated at General Hospitals.
There wore also 152 voluntary notifications of Phthisis (Consumption), 61 belonging to
Giles and Bloomsbury, and 91 to the Holborn Division.