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Islington 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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69 [1914
CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Under this heading are included Cancer and Tuberculosis, as well as
Rheumatism, Rickets, Diabetes, Gout, Anaemia, Gangrene and Purpura.
These diseases, as a group, caused 1,056 deaths, and were equal to a deathrate
of 3.24 per 1,000 of the population; they also formed 21.4 per cent, of the
entire deaths registered in the Borough during the year. It will thus be seen
that they are a very important group of diseases. The statement which immediately
follows shows that the deaths from them have averaged 1,038 during
the preceding 23 years, and represents a death-rate of 3.19 per 1,000 inhabitants.
The death-rate from them as a class has varied very little each year,
amounting at most to one or two decimal points, either above or below the
average.
This will be noticed in the following Table :
| Deaths | Death-rates. | Deaths. | Death-rates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 1,064 | 3.32 | 1902 | 3.23 | |
| 1892 | 1,037 | 3.21 | 1903 | 1,070 | 3.21 |
| 1893 | 1,093 | 3.I8 | 1904 | 1,116 | 3.36 |
| 1894 | 997 | 3.02 | 1905 | 1,007 | 3.03 |
| 1895 | 1,114 | 3.33 | 1906 | 1,042 | 3.15 |
| 1896 | 1,122 | 3.26 | 1907 | 1,041 | 3.15 |
| 1897 | 1,084 | 3.21 | 1908 | 1,048 | 3.12 |
| 1898 | 1,067 | 3.17 | 1909 | 1,032 | 3.14 |
| 1899 | 1,115 | 3.32 | 1910 | 989 | 3.01 |
| 1900 | 1,119 | 3.33 | 1911 | 943 | 2.88 |
| 1901 | 1,080 | 3.22 | 1912 | 1,023 | 3.13 |
| 1913 | 1,032 | 3.11 | |||
| Average | 1,038 | 3.19 | |||
CANCER.
Perhaps one of the most important groups of the Constitutional Diseases
is Cancer, which caused 384 deaths, which represented a death-rate of 118 per
1,000 inhabitants; of these deaths 164 were males and 220 females,