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VENEREAL DISEASES.
Syphilis and Gonorrhoea are the two chief diseases of this class which
prove fatal, and they numbered 15 during the year, as contrasted with a
similar number in 1909, and an average of 18 in the ten years 1900-1909.
The return shows that the deaths among infants were 2 below the number
registered in 1909, and 5 below those registered in 1908. During the year
considerable discussion has arisen among the medical profession respecting a
new remedy for syphilis, and if only a small proportion of the good results
that have been ascribed to it are correct, it follows that a valuable remedy has
been placed in the hands of physicians. Let it be hoped that at last a
medicine has been discovered which will eradicate so terrible and horrible
a disease from the human body.
Under 1 year. 1—5 years. Adults. Total.
1901 10 1 6 17
1902 11 — 10 21
1903 10 1 8 19
1904 13 — 5 18
1906 9 1 11 16
1908 13 1 6 20
1909 10 — 5 15
1910 8 — 7 15
Totals 101 6 70 177
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Within the Borough.—1,683 persons died in the Public Institutions
located in Islington, of whom 1,120 belonged to this borough, the remaining
563 having come here for treatment or relief. Among the latter were 397
persons who died in the Holborn Infirmary, and 85 in the Great Northern
Central Hospital, 10 in the Islington Infirmary, 6 in the London Fever Hospital,
4 in St. Pelagia's Creche, and 12 in the Memorial Cottage Hospital.
Of the 1,120 deaths of inhabitants, 839 occurred in the Islington Infirmary,
148 in the Islington Workhouses and Schools, and 97 in the Great Northern
Central Hospital. The proportion which the 1,120 deaths bore to the borough
mortality was 24.7 per cent.
Without the Borough.—681 deaths of persons belonging to Islington
were registered as occurring in Public Institutions in districts of London outside
the Borough. They included, among others, 41 in the North-Eastern
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