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Islington 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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[1914
| 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. | |
| Tufnell | 1 | 0.12 | •• | •• | 1 | 0.11 | 1 | 0.11 | 3 | 0.09 |
| Upper Holloway | 2 | 0.21 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 2 | 0.05 |
| Tollington | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | • • | •• | •• | •• | •• |
| Lower Holloway | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | • • | •• | • • | •• | •• |
| Highbury | 2 | 0.14 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 2 | 0.03 |
| Barnsbury | 1 | 0.08 | 2 | 0.15 | 1 | 0.08 | •• | • • | 4 | 0.07 |
| Islington, South East | 2 | 0.11 | 1 | 0.05 | •• | •• | •• | • • | 3 | 0.04 |
| The Borough | 8 | 0.10 | 3 | 0.04 | 2 | 0.02 | 1 | 0.01 | 14 | 0.04 |
TYPHUS FEVER.
No death was registered, or case of the disease known.
CONTINUED AND ILL-DEFINED FEVERS.
Nil return.
DIARRHCEAL DISEASES.
These include Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Choleraic Diarrhoea, Zymotic
Enteritis, Epidemic Enteritis, Infective Enteritis, Enteric Catarrh, Gastrointestinal
Catarrh and Gastro-enteric Catarrh.
Taken together, the deaths from these diseases numbered 291, an excess
of only 23 when contrasted with the return for 1913, but very much more than
the number recorded in 1912, when only 134 were registered. The increase
in the return was principally due to two hundred deaths of infants under one
year old, which contrasted unfavourably with 181 in 1913, and 80 in 1912, but
is very much better than the record for 1911, when 309 occurred.
The following Table gives the deaths from these diseases at three separate
age periods of life, for each quarter, and for each year from 1905 to 1914.