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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Stoke Newington 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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Deaths from Zymotic Diseases (including Influenza) in the Year, 1908.
| Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Small Pox. | Enteric Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Influenza. | Erysipelas. | Total. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First quarter | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 21 |
| Second „ | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | .. | 12 |
| Third „ | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | 4 | .. | .. | 9 |
| Fourth „ | 1 | .. | .. | 4 | .. | .. | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| 2 | 1 | .. | 4 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 55 | |
| 1907 | 7 | 6 | .. | 3 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 58 |
Early in March a case of death from Anthrax occurred in the
Borough. It is very seldom, indeed that this disease is met with in
this country except in persons who are engaged in certain factories
where horse-hair, wool and hides, etc., are handled, and yet the
sufferer in this case was a domestic servant who had been employed
during the past 7 years in a house in the Borough of Stoke Newington.
The infection of this disease may be introduced along with the flesh
of cattle suffering from the disease at the time of slaughter. It is conceivable
also that it may have been inhaled in the form of dust and
subsequently swallowed with the saliva. Although every possible
cause was investigated no light was forthcoming as to the causation
of the disease; blankets, wool-work, dead animals and domestic pets,