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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] 42
The following Table is of interest as it shows that with the insignificant
exception of an increase of one from Continued Fever, every disease showed a
decrease on the average of the preceding fifteen years:—

Table: Table XXV. Showing the Corrected Mean Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases, 1885-99, together with the deaths registered in 1900.

Table XXV. Showing the Corrected Mean Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases, 1885-99, together with the deaths registered in 1900.

Diseases.Corrected Mean Number of Deaths, 1885-99.1900.Increase or Decrease.
Small Pox101—9
Measles214159—55
Scarlet Fever5824—34
Diphtheria137106—31
Whooping Cough200142—58
Typhus Fever1——1
Enteric Fever5046—4
Continued & Ill-defined Fevers12+1
Diarrhæa223180—43
The Above Diseases894660—234

Table: The deaths and the death-rates in the Sub-districts were as follows:—

The deaths and the death-rates in the Sub-districts were as follows:—

Sub-districts.Deaths.Deaths-rates.
Upper Holloway.202 =1.88 per 1,000.
Lower Holloway107 =2.50 "
Highbury91 =1.30 "
Barnsbury108 =1.89 "
Islington South-East152 =1.91 "
The Borough660 =1.87 "

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The higher death-rate in Lower Holloway was chiefly due to Measles, as well
as, in a much smaller degree, to Whooping Cough.