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Islington 1911

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

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1911

Table: TABLE LXXIV.Showing the Deaths from Puerperal Fever /ier 1,000 Births in the Sub Districts for each Quarter and the Year 1911.

TABLE LXXIV.

Showing the Deaths from Puerperal Fever /ier 1,000 Births in the Sub Districts for each Quarter and the Year 1911.

Sub-Districts.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Whole Year.
Tufnell......6.291.31
Upper Holloway..........
Tollington..........
Lower Holloway......12.503.04
Highbury3.14......0.80
Barnsbury2.45......0.66
Islington, South East..2.24....0.56
The Borough0.950.51..2.100.87

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CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
These diseases form a group which are only second in importance to
those known as the epidemic diseases. They include Cancel, Rheumatic
Fever, Rheumatism, Rickets, Diabetes, Gout, Anaemia, Gangrene Purpura, and
Tuberculosis, whether of the lungs or any other part of the body.
In 1911 they caused 943 deaths, as compared with 1,039 in the preceding
year, and they were equal to a death-rate of 2.88 per 1,000 of the population.
During the twenty years, 1891-1910, they have caused 21,538 deaths, or an
average of 1,077 per annum, which are equal to an annual death-rate of 3.25
per 1,000 of the population during this period. They therefore represent more
than a fifth of the entire mortality of the borough.
The deaths and death-rates from these diseases are well worth studying
year by year, and for the first time they are now given:—