London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Islington 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]

This page requires JavaScript

45 [1910

TABLE XXI. Showing the Deaths among Infants per 1,000 Births during the year 1910, and also the mortality rates for the years 1902-9.

Sub-Districts.1902.1903.1904.19051906.1907.19081909.Mean 1902 9.1910.Decrease.
Tufnell -123112141127122127811071177839
Upper Hollo-1031389210110588747796888
way Tollington144105128117127132117961248836
Lower Hollo-156159161151i5514812510114310835
way Highbury114178981179510710193, 1068224
Barnsbury15121014212413812311911113011119
South East Islington130263134121129104991171219427
The Borough1321261281231251171031031209525

TABLE XXII. Showing the Mortality per 1,000 Births among Infants under one year of agein the three years 1901-03; in the ten years 1900-09; and in 1910 from certainspecified causes.

Causes of DeathMean rate of 3 years 1901-2-3 per 1,000 Births.1910.Mean rate 10 years 1900-09 per 1,000 Births.
Premature Birth and Congenital Defects24 .2518. 6524 .10
Bronchitis and Pneumonia25.6719 .5122.62
Atrophy and Marasmus ..20.5411. 4618 .55
Diarrhceal Diseases (all forms)19 .0110. 4921. 03
Convulsions.6.66,2.684 41
Whooping Cough6.447.805. 32
Measles3.272.563 .73
Phthisis1 .850.371 .24
Other forms of Tuberculosis5 685 .245 20
Diphtheria0.430 120 34
Total of above113.8078. 88106. 54
All other causes18.9115. 8518 .10
Total132. 7194 73124 .64