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19 [1932
Within and Without the Borough.—The deaths of Islingtonians
numbered 2,564, and were equal to 63.9 per cent, of the total deaths registered
during the year.
Fatal Accidents or Sudden Deaths outside the Borough.—
21 inhabitants died from accidental deaths, or suddenly, in places outside Islington.
During the previous year (1931) the total deaths in Local Institutions numbered
2,419, being 1,629 inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions, plus 790
non-inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions, the number in Islington
Hospital being 1,187, the number in the Royal Northern Hospital 130. The
deaths of inhabitants of Islington in Institutions outside the Borough were 895.
The total deaths of Islingtonians in all Institutions were 2,524, and the proportion
per 100 deaths from all causes equalled 61.5.
Transferable Deaths,—During the year 51 deaths of residents that had
occurred in outlying Institutions and other places in Provincial Boroughs were
transferred by the Registrar-General to Islington.
MORTALITY FROM THE PRINCIPAL EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Diphtheria, Fevers—
Typhus, Enteric and Continued—and Diarrhceal Diseases.
During the year 182 persons died from these diseases, the death-rate being
0.56 per 1,000 inhabitants, as contrasted with 0.21 in the corresponding period
last year, and a decennial average mortality of 234 and a death-rate of 0.70 per
1,000.
In London the death-rate from the epidemic disease was 0.40.
Locally the deaths in the Sub-Registration Districts and Wards were as
follows :—