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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
CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
This group of diseases, which includes, among many others, such diseases as
Rheumatic Fever, Cancer, Phthisis and the allied tubercular diseases, and
Diabetes caused 1,119 deaths, which was 35 above the uncorrected average for the
preceding seven years.
The total deaths numbered 1,119, as against an average of 1,084, and the
resulting death-rate was 3•17 per 1,000 inhabitants.

Table: Table LVI.Showing the Deaths from the several Constitutional Diseases during the years 1893-9, together with the Mean Number of Deaths for these years, together with the Deaths in 1900.

Table LVI.Showing the Deaths from the several Constitutional Diseases during the years 1893-9, together with the Mean Number of Deaths for these years, together with the Deaths in 1900.

1893.1894.1895.1896.1897.1898.1899.Aver-age 1893-9.1900.In-crease or De-crease.
Rheumatic Fever18149172022261816- 2
Rheumatism8812124128910+ 1
Gout7791597487- 1
Rickets91017121719251613- 3
Cancer238239266291304283270270303+33
Gangrene98914118151115+ 4
Tabes Mesenterica1136980817165507636-40
Tubercular Meningitis75621081038287898769-18
Phthisis560539568530520527583547602+55
Other Tubercular & Scrofulous Diseases103716167793- 6
Purpura422..21422
Anaemia. Chlorosis, Leuco-cythaemia8131091211111112+ 1
Diabetes202316191318201828+10
Other Diseases4••133••323+ 1
Totals1,0939971,1141,1221,0841,0671,1151,0841,119+ 35