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Islington 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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169
1907
OCCUPATIONS OF PERSONS ATTACKED WITH INFECTIOUS
DISEASE.
In the following table is shown the occupation, as far as could be ascertained,
of the several persons who had been attacked with infectious disease
during the year.
The table is interesting, for it shows among other matters that out of
1,407 persons whose occupations had been ascertained, 1,004 were scholars.
Table CXI.

Table: Table CX.— continued.

Table CX.— continued.

trades and businesses.Small Pox.Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Memb. Croup.Enteric (Typhoid Fever).Typhus Fever.Erysipelas.Puerperal Fever.Cholera.Total.
Mantle Makers...2..................2
Motor Making......1..................1
Metal Working......1...............1
Newsagent...4......1............5
Needlework...1..................1
Naturalists............1.........1
Nursing Home..................i......1
Opera Cloak Making...1..................1
Optician......1...............1
Oilman......1.........i......2
Offices............1.........1
Printers...1..................1
Public House...62...2.........10
Photographers...1......1.........2
Pearl Mounting...1..................1
Refreshment Rooms...22...............4
Riding School...1..................1
Stationer...21............1*4
Sweets, &c....32...............5
Stables...2..................2
School...12.........1.........13
Shirt Making...1..................1
Surgery...11.........i......3
Sign Writing......2...............2
Stay Making............2.........2
Servants' Home..................i......1
Spangle Work..................i......1
Tailor...12...1.........4
Tobacconist...2............i......3
Tie Making...2..................2
Timber Binding...1..................1
Toy Making......1..................1
Thermometer Making......1..................1
Trimming Making..................i......1
Underclothing...2...............i......3
Undertakers.......1...............1
Volunteer Headquarters...1..................1
Wardrobe Dealers...2............i......3
Wood Chopping.......1..................1
Wood Turning......1..................1
Totals...16451......22...22...1*260