[Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City.

Manchester (England). City Council. n 88637066.

Date:: 1918

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Credit: [Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Table 3.—1918—Scarlet Fever Attacks in Districts, with Attack Rate, Case Fatality per cent., and Removals to Hospital per cent. Districts Attacks Attack Rate I‘ER 1,000 Living t Case Fatality PER CENT. Removals to Hospital PER CENT. u.2* / Ancoats . 23 o'6o 13-0 9r3 G “ ifl .« 8 g ( Central . 21 1*20 4-8 IOO'O V O H v St. George’s . 57 1*2 2 3'5 91 '2 /Cheetham . 32 o'6g 3’1 78i Crumpsall . 4 0-36 5°'° <D Blackley . *3 077 .... 76-9 Harpurhey . 44 2*42 2'3 77*3 Moston. 48 **52 ... 7o‘8 Newton Heath ... 36 o'8o . . . 80-5 s Bradford . 29 1*10 6-8 96-5 Beswick . 15 I ’2 I . . . IOO'O Clayton . !3 °'79 692 /Ardwick . 3i c'79 6-5 93*5 Openshaw . 72 2-14 . . . 8o'5 Gorton (West) ... I9 071 5'3 73*7 j-. <u Rusholme & Kirk. 38 076 T9 73*7 n & •5 v Chorlton-on-Med. 44 0-83 . . . 727 a s: 0 y Hulme . 52 085 5-8 86-5 C/5 E TO Moss Side . 3° 077 3'3 567 S Withington. 72 I'I5 . . • 62-5 Gorton . 69 1-32 2-9 78-3 vLevenshulme. n 065 ... 47*i City of Manchester ... •779 1-oi 2 8 783 t Corrected ; the fatal cases are those actually occurring amongst the cases notified. The attack rates were highest in Harpurhey and Openshaw. Notwithstanding the low total incidence of Scarlet Fever, it has not been found necessary to remove to Hospital more than 78-3 per cent, of the cases, which may be taken to imply that a fairly high proportion of the cases occurred under conditions permitting of satisfactory isolation at home. The case fatality is slightly lower than the mean for the past ten years. Table 4. Year. 1908 1909 1910 191 I 1912 «9G 1914 1915 1916 1917 Mean 1918 Case fatality 36 4*i 3*4 i-8 2'8 2*5 3*i 27 3*° i-8 2*9 2-8 per cent.