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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Islington 1893

Thirty-eighth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington

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Table: TABLE I. (Local Government Board Return). Table of Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1893, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Islington ; classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.

TABLE I. (Local Government Board Return). Table of Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1893, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Islington ; classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.

Sub-Districts.Population at all Ages.Registered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.Number of such Cases Removed form their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospitals.
Census MM.Estimated to middle of 1893.1234567891011121312345678910111213
Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Brysipelas.
Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.ContinuedRelapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.ContinuedRelapsing.Puerperal.
(a.)(b.)(c.)(d)(e.)
Upper Holloway90,23595,6942,768Under 52153738...2............12......246171...1.....................
5 upwds1460420111811...12...147......1117842...121......1...8......
Islington, South West105,557106,6143,386Under 52243767...4............12......26336......1............2......
5 upwds477941511...581...13...182......4423845......17............25......
Islington, South East64,16864,9961,994Under 54121643...4............8......42720......4.....................
5 upwds113201573...473...3...140......9110382...6............9......
Highbury59,19360,9991,601Under 5...159232...1............6.........3121...........................
5 upwds74881171...461...8...60......712211......10............5......
Public Institutions.........Under 537........................1......3....................................
5 upwds26456......61.........90......26131......61..................
Totals319,143328,5039,749Under 51168323680...11............89......11167752...6............2......
5 upwds1052,251632612387...86...619......9766113721601...1...47......