Reports for the year 1893 of the statistical committee and the medical superintendents of the infectious hospitals and imbecile asylums, also of the ambulance and training ship "Exmouth" committees (8th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England). Statistical Committee.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Reports for the year 1893 of the statistical committee and the medical superintendents of the infectious hospitals and imbecile asylums, also of the ambulance and training ship "Exmouth" committees (8th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ii. NOTIFICATION STATISTICS AND SPOTTED MAPS. The table on the succeeding page shows the number of notifications of, and deaths from, those notifiable diseases which are eligible for admission to the Managers’ hospitals, the ratio of such notifications and deaths to the population, the number of notifications of other notifiable diseases, and the grand total of cases notified during 1893. The appended diagrams show the cases of scarlet and enteric fevers, diphtheria, and smallpox which were notified during each week of the four years that the present system of notification of infectious disease has been compulsory in London. Graphic statistics of the prevalence of the principal fevers through¬ out the Metropolis will be found upon reference to the spotted maps enclosed in the pocket at the end of this volume. In all, there are seven maps, dealing with five diseases. Scarlet Fever cases are spotted on four maps—one for each quarter of the year. This was done because not only were the cases too numerous to be shown clearly on one map of the size selected, but because it wms thought that quarterly maps would have the additional interest of illustrating and comparing the prevalence of the disease during the different seasons of the year. The wide-spread prevalence of the disease is clearly shown in the maps, and especially in some of the northern, eastern, and south-eastern districts. In the Diphtheria map, the prevalence of the disease in certain localities is well defined, particularly in the eastern districts. On the Enteric Fever map, a few considerable aggregations of cases are apparent, notably at Hackney, Bethnal Green, and Poplar. Smallpox and Typhus Fever cases are shown on one map, the former being represented by crosses and the latter by spots. Typhus fever has, for some years past, been practically stamped out in London, and there are very few cases now occurring. Of smallpox the most notable outbreaks occurred in Kensington, St. Marylebone, Mile End, Whitechapel, Poplar, Lambeth, Battersea, Camberwell, and Greenwich. iff. FEVEK STATISTICS, 1893. It will be observed that additions have been made to the statistical tables, and that they have been renumbered, and now consist of 14 separate tables, instead of 11, as in former years. The three additional tables show the coexistent diseases present during attacks of scarlet fever, diphtheria, and enteric fever.