Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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[1925
The following tabular statement shows the number of cases treated in the various public institutions :
Year. | Cases treated in Hospital. | Percentage of cases, treated. |
---|---|---|
1915 | 1,991 | 90.1 |
1916 | 1,269 | 90.0 |
1917 | 1,099 | 87.8 |
1918 | 982 | 87.1 |
1919 | 1,772 | 88.9 |
1920 | 2,642 | 92.0 |
1921 | 4,117 | 94.8 |
1922 | 2,621 | 94.0 |
1923 | 1,996 | 95.2 |
1924 | 1.975 | 94.6 |
1925 | 2,105 | 95.9 |
DISEASES TREATED IN HOSPITAL.
Disease. | Total cases. | Cases isolated. | Percentage of known cases. |
---|---|---|---|
Scarlet Fever | 1,139 | 1,115 | 97.9 |
Diphtheria | 913 | 897 | 98.2 |
Enteric Fever | 10 | 9 | 90.0 |
Erysipelas | 109 | 64 | 58.7 |
Puerperal Fever | 23 | 20 | 87.0 |
2,194 | 2,105 | 95.9 |
Summary of Infectious Sickness and of Deaths arising therefrom, distinguishing the Cases treated at Home and in Hospitals; and showing the percentage of notified Cases removed to Hospitals, together with the Fatality among cases treated at Home and in Hospitals during the year 1925.
Notified Cases Treated. | Percentage of Notified Cases Treated. | Deaths Occurring. | Percentage of Deaths Occurring. | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
In Hospital | At Home | Total | In Hospital | At Home | In Hospital | At Home | Total | In Hospital | At Home | Total | |
Small Pox Scarlet | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Fever | 1,115 | 24 | 1,139 | 97.9 | 2.1 | 8 | - | 8 | 0.7 | — | 0.7 |
Diphtheria Enteric | 897 | 16 | 913 | 98.2 | 1.8 | 21 | - | 21 | 2.3 | — | 2.3 |
(Typhoid Fever) | 9 | 1 | 10 | 90.0 | 10.0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 33.3 | 1000 | 40.0 |
Typhus Fever .. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Erysipelas | 64 | 45 | 109 | 58.7 | 41.3 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 14.0 | 2.2 | 9.2 |
Puerperal Fever | 20 | 3 | 23 | 87.0 | 13.0 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 35.0 | 33.3 | 35.0 |
Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Total | 2,105 | 89 | 2,194 | 95.9 | 4.1 | 48 | 3 | 51 | 2.3 | 3.4 | 2.3 |