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Islington 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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In the fourth quarter 666 cases were notified, representing an annual
attack rate of 7.68 per 1,000 of the population. They were 107 below the corrected
average (773) of the fourth quarters of the ten years 1897.1906. The
attack rate in London in the same period was 11.46 per 1,000, or 3.78 higher
than in Islington, while in the encircling boroughs it was 12.41 per 1,000,
or 4.73 higher than the rate of Islington.
Fatality.—By this term, when used in this Report, is meant the
percentage of deaths to cases of notifiable infectious diseases. It is the means
of estimating the virulence of the disease.
In the Wards the cases notified and their proportion to the population were as follows:—
| Upper Holloway | 178 | 4.88 „ „ |
| Tollington | 163 | 4.48 „ „ |
| Lower Holloway | 269 | 6.44 „ „ |
| Highbury | 196 | 5.58 „ „ |
| Mildmay | 169 | 6.73 „ „ |
| Thornhill | 219 | 6.53 „ „ |
| Barnsbury | 147 | 7.21 „ „ |
| St. Mary | 110 | 6.29 „ „ |
| Canonbury | 165 | 4.94 „ „ |
| St. Peter | 254 | 7.6 9 „ „ |
| 2,063 | 5.94 |
[1907
Hospital Isolation.— Out of the 2,063 cases of infectious disease
notified, 1,651, or 80 per cent., were isolated in hospital, as compared with 77.1
per cent. in the preceding year.