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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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crowded, and impurities abound; the sanitary shortcomings are
palpable."
Such a state of healthiness would be difficult to attain in a district
like Islington, completely built over as it is, and with surroundings
very different from the Healthy Districts, which were for the most part
rural or semi-rural. I have added them to the Table to show that,
favourably circumstanced as they were by nature, they were not at
certain age periods so healthy as Islington. It is sometimes good to
know our strong as well as our weak points.
The following is the Table:—
Table XX.
| Ages. | Estimated Population in 1893. | Annual Death Rates. | Deaths in 1893. | Annual Mortality Rates in the Healthy Districts. | Deaths which would have occurred in Islington if the death rates had been the same as in Healthy Districts. | Death Rates in England in 1871-80. | Deaths which would have occurred in Islington if the death rates had been the same as in England. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 0—5 | 38,740 | 64.48 | 2,498 | 40.34 | 1,562 | 63.12 | 2,444 |
| 5—15 | 67,631 | 4.45 | 301 | 5.60 | 378 | 5.06 | 342 |
| 15—25 | 65,659 | 3.77 | 248 | 7.28 | 478 | 6.18 | 405 |
| 25—35 | 56,468 | 7.26 | 410 | 8.56 | 483 | 8.93 | 504 |
| 35- 45 | 40,709 | 13.19 | 537 | 9.63 | 392 | 12.62 | 513 |
| 45—55 | 28,561 | 20.55 | 587 | 12.32 | 351 | 17.72 | 506 |
| 55—65 | 17,732 | 33.61 | 596 | 22.28 | 395 | 31.49 | 558 |
| 65—75 | 9,192 | 72.24 | 664 | 52.39 | 481 | 64.85 | 596 |
| 75 and upwards. | 3,611 | 152.33 | 550 | 145.32 | 524 | 161.59 | 583 |
| 328,303 | 19.45 | 6,391 | 16.75 | 5,044 | 21.27 | 6,451 | |
| 15.36* | 19.64* | ||||||
*The death rates that would have prevailed in these districts at all ages if the
distribution of the ages had been the same as in Islington in 1893. The rate would also be
slightly different if sex distribution had been taken into consideration, viz.: 19·39.
Note.—When the above table was compiled the death-rate for England during the
dicennial period had not been published, and therefore I had to fall back on that of the
preceding decade. The death-rate 1881—90 was 19·15.