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Islington 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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54
1914]
WHOOPING COUGH.
W hooping Cough was responsible for 83 deaths, which is exactly equal to
the corrected average for the preceding ten years, but is an increase of 21 on
the return for 1913.
The particulars for each of the sub-districts are given in the following
Table
| Sub-Districts. | 1st Quarter. | 2nd Quarter. | 3rd Quarter. | 4th Quarter. | Year. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths. | Death-rates. | Deaths. | Death-rates. | Deaths. | Death-rates. | Deaths. | Death-rates. | Deaths. | Death-rates. | |
| •• | •• | |||||||||
| •• | •• | •• | • • | |||||||
| •• | •• | |||||||||
ENTERIC FEVER.
Fourteen deaths were known to be caused by Enteric Fever, which was
exactly the corrected average of the preceding ten years. The return is,
however, the highest since 1910, when 17 deaths were registered, which were
followed in 1911 by 12, in 1912 by 8, and in 1913 by 4 deaths. The largest
number of deaths occurred in the first quarter, when 8 were registered; this
number declined to 3 in the second, to 2 in the third, and to one in the fourth
quarter, so that the excess of deaths were practically confined to the first three
months of the year. It is singular that no death was registered in either
Tollington or Lower Holloway, which together contain more than 68,000
inhabitants, although 12 cases were notified from the former sub-district, and 4
from the latter.