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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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1900]
Table XVI. Showing the Deaths and Death-rates from eleven Classified Causes of Disease in the Sub-registration districts and in the Borough.
| Classified Diseases. | Upper Holloway. | Lower Holloway. | Highbury. | Barnsbury. | South-East. | The Borough. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | |
| Miasmatic | 185 | 1.75 | 107 | 2.51 | 89 | 1.28 | 101 | 1.76 | 148 | 1.90 | 630 | 1.79 |
| Diarrhæal | 66 | 0.63 | 18 | 0.42 | 29 | 0.42 | 34 | 0.59 | 33 | 0.42 | 180 | 0.51 |
| Constitutional | 323 | 3.06 | 155 | 3.64 | 189 | 2.72 | 169 | 2.95 | 283 | 3.63 | 1,119 | 3. 17 |
| Developmental | 168 | 1.59 | 60 | 1.41 | 75 | 1.08 | 99 | 1.73 | 138 | 1.77 | 540 | 1.53 |
| Nervous | 170 | 1. 61 | 55 | 1. 29 | 95 | 1.37 | 80 | 1.40 | 115 | 1.47 | 515 | 1.46 |
| Circulation | 142 | 1.35 | 49 | 1. 15 | 88 | 1.27 | 78 | 1.36 | 125 | 1.60 | 482 | 1. 37 |
| Respiration | 309 | 2.93 | 145 | 3. 41 | 170 | 2. 45 | 229 | 4.00 | 279 | 3.58 | 1,132 | 3.21 |
| Digestive Org's | 99 | 0.94 | 44 | 1.03 | 77 | 1.11 | 69 | 1.21 | 98 | 1.26 | 387 | 1.10 |
| Urinary System | 36 | 0.34 | 24 | 0.56 | 26 | 0.37 | 23 | 0.40 | 35 | 0.45 | 144 | 0.41 |
| Violence | 44 | 0. 42 | 27 | 0.63 | 31 | 0.45 | 43 | 0.75 | 50 | 0.64 | 195 | 0.55 |
| Ill defined | 53 | 0.50 | 39 | 0.92 | 35 | 1.50 | 47 | 0.82 | 62 | 0.79 | 236 | 0.67 |
The black figures denote that these were the highest rates experienced in the several
districts.
AGES AT DEATH.
In the annexed table (XVII) there is a full statement of the number of persons
who died at thirteen age periods. On examining this table the first and most
notable feature that is evident is that at each of the age periods under 15 years
there was a decrease in the number of deaths. Thus, during the first year of life
the number fell from an average of 1,446 to 1,344, being a decrease of 102; in the
period 1 to 5 years the number decreased from the average of 852 to 612, a decrease
of 240; and in the period 5 to 15 the number fell from 234 to 183, or a decrease
of 51.
These figures are particularly gratifying, because it is just at these ages that
insanitary conditions are most harmful, and most fatal to human life. Considering
the improved sanitary conditions that have of recent years existed in Islington, it
is not remarkable that this decreased mortality should have occurred.