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1907]
left undone, and which his sex debars him from effecting. This question of
health visitors is discussed more fully in a later part of this report, to which
reference should be made.*
In the Medical Officer of Health's report for 1906 he showed that a
change was taking place in the age incidence of the borough, and that that
change lent itself, not to a decrease in the mortality, but to the reverse, although
that effect is not very great in so large a population, amounting as it does, to
about 83 deaths per annum.
The Mortality in the Sub-registration Districts.—The mortality
ranged from 12.07 per 1,000 of the population in Highbury, where 816 deaths
were registered, to 17.60 per 1,000 in Barnsbury, where 949 deaths occurred.
Between these came Tollington with 480 deaths and a death-rate of
13-20 per 1,000; Tufnell, with 482 deaths and a death-rate of 13.99 per 1,000;
South-East Islington, with 1,149 deaths and a death-rate of 15.01 per 1,000;
Upper Holloway, with 559 deaths and a death-rate of 15.34 per 1,000; Lower
Holloway, with 044 deaths and a death-rate of 15.42 per 1,000.
An inquiry into the vital statistics of these sub-districts during the last
few years will be useful. Unfortunately, however, owing to the increase in
their number, and their consequent sub-division into smaller districts, it is not
possible to go farther back than 1901, when the present sub-districts were
constituted.
Tufnell. This sub-district was particularly healthy during the year, the
deaths numbering 482, equal to a death-rate of 13.99 per 1,000, as compared
with an average of 449 and a death-rate of 14.45 in the six years 1902-7. At
no time in these six years can it be said to have been unhealthy, for the
highest death-rate, registered in 1904, was only 17.18 per 1,000, while in 1900
it was as low as 12.70 Tufnell is no mean town in itself, for its population is
now estimated at 34,441 persons, and it is, therefore, as large a community
as the borough of Lowestoft.
Upper Holloway, which lies immediately to the west of Tufnell, also
enjoyed good health, as is indicated by its death-rate, which was 15.34 per
1,000 (representing 559 deaths), or slightly under the average of 15.59 during
the six years 1902-7. Its mortality has been very constant during the last
five years, varying only from 14.85 to 15.44 in a population of 30,425, which is
a community of the size of Maidstone.
* p. 227.