Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]
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TABLE III
DISTRICT RATES OF MORTALITY FOR 1802, PER 1000 OF POPULATION
(Census of 1861).
NAME OF DISTRICT. | Total. | Zymotic Diseases. | Tubercular Diseases. | Under 5 years. | Phthisis. | Respiratory Diseases. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Hooping Cough, | Diarrhoea, &c. | Fever. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. Highgate Hill | 17.8 | 4.8 | 3.8 | 8.1 | 2.1 | 3.6 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.9 | ... | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 |
2. Tuffnell | 11.0 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 4.3 | 0.9 | 0.9 | ... | 0.2 | 0.6 | ... | 0.2 | ... | 0.2 |
3. Belle Isle | 17.1 | 6.2 | 0.9 | 10.0 | ... | 2.8 | ... | 1.4 | 2.3 | ... | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
4. Lwr. Holloway | 20.8 | 5.7 | 3.7 | 9.4 | 2.2 | 4.2 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.9 |
5. Palmer | 8.8 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 3.3 | 1.1 | 1.1 | ... | ... | ... | 1.1 | ... | ... | ... |
6. Bemerton | 22.3 | 8.6 | 2.6 | 12.5 | 2.1 | 3.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
7. Barnsbury | 15.8 | 4.7 | 2.3 | 5.9 | 1.7 | 1.8 | ... | 0.2 | 2.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
8. Park Street | 13.8 | 2.8 | 2.1 | 6.4 | 1.4 | 1.7 | ... | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.0 | ... | ... |
9. Theberton | 15.3 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 6.7 | 1.9 | 2.3 | ... | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 |
10. Trinity | 19.7 | 4.8 | 3.0 | 6.5 | 2.9 | 2.9 | ... | 0.3 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
11. St. Thomas | 17.4 | 5.9 | 2.0 | 9.2 | 1.2 | 3.3 | ... | 0.7 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
12. White Conduit | 17.1 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 8.5 | 2.8 | 2.0 | ... | 2.0 | 1.2 | ... | ... | 0.4 | 0.4 |
13. Canal | 20.1 | 7.4 | 3.0 | 12.1 | 1.9 | 2.8 | 0.09 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0.6 |
14. Battle Bridge | 25.8 | 6.7 | 3.8 | 12.0 | 3.1 | 6.7 | ... | 1.4 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 |
15. Archway | 15.1 | 4.6 | 1.5 | 6.6 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.6 | ... | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
16. Homsey Rise | 9.1 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 3.0 | 0.6 | 1.8 | ... | ... | 0.6 | 0.6 | ... | ... | ... |
17. Freehold | 16.2 | 5.7 | 2.3 | 7.6 | 1.9 | 0.4 | ... | 0.4 | 3.8 | ... | 0.4 | ... | ... |
18. Hornsey Road | 21.4 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 6.9 | 2.3 | 2.7 | ... | 0.9 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | ... |
19. Queen's Road. | 22.6 | 4.9 | 3.6 | 12.7 | 1.3 | 3.6 | ... | 2.2 | 0.3 | ... | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
20. Highbury Hill | 8.0 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 3.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 0.4 | ... |
21. Highbury Yale | 16.5 | 8.7 | 2.9 | 7.7 | 2.9 | 0.9 | .. | ... | 1.9 | ... | 2.9 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
22. Ouionbury | 15.1 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 5.3 | 2.0 | 2.2 | ... | 0.3 | 0.8 | ... | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
23. Rydon | 9.7 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 3.7 | 1.0 | 1.3 | ... | 0.2 | ... | ... | 0.5 | 0.2 | ... |
24. Mildmay | 25.7 | 9.1 | 2.2 | 10.1 | 1.8 | 3.2 | ... | 0.9 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 2.2 |
25. Kingsland | 15.1 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 9.4 | 1.5 | 2.7 | ... | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | ... | ... |
26. Balls Pond | 28.6 | 13.1 | 4.6 | 17.7 | 3.2 | 2.3 | ... | 6.2 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 0.6 |
27. Market | 17.1 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 6.6 | 2.6 | 2.6 | ... | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.5 | ... | 0.8 | 0.8 |
28. Rotherfield | 16.3 | 3.8 | 1.7 | 6.6 | 1.4 | 2.8 | ... | ... | 1.0 | ... | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.3 |
29. Church | 22.7 | 4.0 | 2.2 | 8.5 | 1.8 | 5.2 | ... | 0.3 | 1.1 | ... | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
30. Lower Road | 21.8 | 6.8 | 4.3 | 12.6 | 2.3 | 3.2 | 0.09 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.6 |
31. Shepherdess | 19.5 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 9.2 | 2.4 | 2.9 | ... | 0.1 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
32. St. Peter's | 12.6 | 3.0 | 2.6 | 6.0 | 1.9 | 1.7 | ... | 0.3 | 0.8 | ... | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
33. Duncan | 7.3 | ... | 2.4 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
34. Irish Courts | 27.8 | 8.6 | 5.7 | 18.2 | 1.9 | 3.8 | ... | 2.8 | ... | ... | ... | 1.9 | 2.8 |
35. City Road | 14.7 | 4.0 | 0.6 | 5.7 | 0.3 | 2.3 | ... | 1.3 | 0.6 | ... | ... | 0.3 | 1.0 |