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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 1900
Forty-fifth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington
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15 [1900
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BIRTHS.
The births of 9,254 children, of whom 4,764 were males and 4,490 females,
were registered. These are equal to an annual birth-rate of 26·25 Per 1,000, which
is the lowest birth-rate recorded in the last twenty-eight years, and probably the
lowest which has been ever known since Islington lost its rural character.
An examination of the figures given in Table IX. will in this connection repay
perusal.
The following statement gives the birth-rate for the country as well as for some
of the most populous places:—
England and Wales 28·9 per thousand.
33 Great Towns 29·4 ,,
,, „ less London 29·8 ,,
67 Urban Districts 29·4 ,,
London 28·6 „
Birmingham 32·7 „
Liverpool 36·0 ,,
Manchester 32·3 „
Leeds 30·4 ,,
Sheffield 34·1 „
Bristol 27·8 ,,
The Encircling Districts 28·5 „
St. Pancras 26·3 ,,
Stoke Newington 21·8 ,,
Hackney 28·3 ,,
Hornsey 21·5 „
Clerkenwell 29·8 ,,
St. Luke 44·9 ,,
Shoreditch 33·3 ,,
Islington 26·2 „