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Islington 1914

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

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Table: TABLE LXIII.Showing theDeathsfrom the severalConstitutional Diseasesduring the Years1904-1913,also theCorrected Mean Number of Deathsfor these Years, together with theDeathsin1914.

TABLE LXIII.

Showing theDeathsfrom the severalConstitutional Diseasesduring the Years1904-1913,also theCorrected Mean Number of Deaths

for these Years, together with theDeathsin1914.

1904.1905.1906.1907.1908.1909.1910.1911.1912.1913.Corrected Means 1904-1913.1914In-creast or Decrease
Rheumatic Fever13181511910151015111314+ 1
Rheumatism211119131428151820151712- 5
Gout11761374253266
Rickets1111115534101463- 3
Cancer323328363348367353361332382404351384+33
Tuberculosis.Abdominal Tuberculosis40393526454136332030332S- 8
Tubercular Meningitis746380746372725067586660- 6
Phthisis533438411436432424390387427420424461+37
Other Tubercular and Scrofulous Diseases354052726445415139284622-'24
Purpura12133• •122327+ 5
Anaemia. Chlorosis, Leuco-cythaemia..141516151413162211181514- 1
Diabetes352832212136342729353038+ 8
Other Diseases57144321074510+ 5
Totals1 1161,0071,0421,0411,0481,0329899571,0231,0321,0141.056+ 42

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DEATHS FROM THE DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM.
These diseases, which include Chronic and Acute Bronchitis, Pneumonia,
Pleurisy and Asthma, caused 896 deaths, or 103 less than in 1913. They
represented 181 per cent, of the total deaths registered in the borough.
Acute Bronohitis.— One hundred and thirty-four deaths were ascribed lo
it, of which 54 occurred among males, and 80 among females This is a
decrease of 15 below the return for 1913.
It is to be noted that no less than 42 deaths of infants under 12 months'
old took place, and that 24 deaths occurred in the Public Institutions of the
borough.