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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
Islington 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE xcvii.
(n.b. —Duplicate notifications have been deducted).
| WARDS. | Estimated Population. 1906. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Enteric (Typhoid) Fever | Typhus Fever. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Cholera. | Totals. | Cases Notified per 1,000 of Population. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| Tufnell | 34,441 | ... | 120 | 35 | ... | 9 | ... | 26 | 3 | ... | ... | ... | 193 | 5.6o |
| Upper Holloway | 36.425 | ... | 78 | 65 | ... | 10 | ... | 20 | 5 | ... | ... | ... | 178 | 4.88 |
| Tollington | 36,367 | ... | 91 | 4i | ... | 10 | ... | 21 | ... | ... | ... | 163 | 4.48 | |
| Lower Holloway | 4i,751 | ... | 164 | 55 | ... | 10 | ... | 35 | 5 | ... | ... | ... | 269 | 6.44 |
| Highbury - | 35,i22 | ... | 125 | 39 | ... | 15 | ... | 17 | ... | ... | ... | 196 | 5.58 | |
| Mildmay - | 25,126 | ... | 112 | 30 | ... | 6 | ... | 18 | 2 | 1 | ... | ... | 169 | 6.73 |
| Thornhill - | 33,512 | ... | 110 | 64 | ... | 11 | ... | 33 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 219 | 6.53 |
| Barnsbury - | 20,385 | ... | 92 | 30 | ... | ... | 22 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | i47 | 7.21 | |
| St. Mary's - | 17,484 | ... | 49 | 39 | ... | 6 | ... | 13 | 2 | ... | ... | ... | 110 | 6.29 |
| Canonbury- | 33,408 | ... | 105 | 35 | ... | 6 | ... | 18 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 165 | 4.94 |
| St. Peter's - | 32,996 | ... | 170 | 47 | ... | 7 | ... | 29 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 254 | 7. 69 |
| Totals - | 347,017 | 1216 | 480 | 1 | 92 | 252 | ...... | 2063 | 5.94 | |||||
| 1905 - | *3 | 35i | 100 | 252 | 24 | ...... | 1928 | 5.62 | ||||||
| 1906 | 1 | 1386 | 437 | 2 | 149 | I | 274 | 24 | I | " | 2275 | 6.59 | ||
| * One case detained in Hospital a few days and then returned as not Small Pox | ||||||||||||||
185 [1907