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21 |1910
DEATHS.
1 he Medical Officer of Health is afforded much satisfaction through being
able to report that the number of deaths, 4,523, registered in the borough in
1910, was less than at any time since 1873, notwithstanding the fact that the
population has increased since then from 227,000 to 327,985.
The deaths were 395 below those registered in the precedmg year, and 559
below the corrected average of the ten years 19001909. This is extremely satisfactory,
for it shows that there has been on the whole a steady decrease in
the number registered from year to year. In 1900, 5,721 deaths occurred, or
1,198 more than were registered last year.
The deathrate, based on the recent census, was 13.79 per 1,000, which
was the lowest deathrate recorded in Islington since civil registration came
in/o vogue. This may be seen from the facts that from 1841 to 1850 the mean
deathrate was 19.28 per 1,000, while the lowest deathrate in that decade was
17.58 in the year 1850. In the ten years 18511860 the mean deathrate was
21.43 per 1,000, while the lowest deathrate in these years was 20.0 per 1,000
in 1857. From 1861 to 1870 the deathrate averaged 24.6 per 1,000, while
the lowest deathrate in this period was 19.94 in 1861. In the succeeding
decade, 18711880, there was a considerable fall in the deathrate, which
averaged 20.4 per 1,000, while the lowest rate registered was 18.25 in 1873.
From 1881 to 1890 the average deathrate was 18.60, while the lowest rate
recorded was 16.10 in 1889. From 1891 to 1900 the mortality was at the
rate of 17.72 per 1,000 of the population, while the lowest rate that obtained
was 15.92 in 1894. Then we come to the new century, in which the population
for the first time showed a decrease, where we find that in the ten years
19011910 the mean mortality was 15.17 per 1,000. Thus the deathrate
for the decennium, calculated on the population ascertained at the recent census,
stands very low, viz:—15.17 per 1,000. These figures are given so that it
may not be thought that the health conditions that undoubtedly obtain in
Islington have been exaggerated. Such is not the case, for, even taking the
average deathrate of a borough such as Islington, with its large artizan population,
at 15.17, the health conditions axe most satisfactory.
Ages at Death. ——With the exception of the two age periods 75 to 85
and 85 and upwards, there was a decrease in the number of deaths when compared
with the preceding ten years at the various periods of life as specified
in Table XV. There are one or two of the age periods to which special