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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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reasonably expect, if the character, mode of life, and housing of their
populations is considered; for the death-rate is found to be least in
those districts which are least overcrowded, and greatest where they
are most dense. Judging them then by what is known of the districts,
I am of opinion that these death-rates are not unreasonable, and are
not excessive. Indeed they are the very opposite if judged by the
rates in the worst districts of very many of the large towns, or even
of the Metropolis.

Table: SEASONAL MORTALITY. Table XXII. The deaths in the Four Quarters.

SEASONAL MORTALITY. Table XXII. The deaths in the Four Quarters.

Classified Causes of Death.Quarters.Year.
1st.2nd.3rd.4th.
1. Specific Or Febrile Causes1812753562671,079
1. Miasmatic Diseases153202184221760
2. Diarrhœal125415417237
3. Malarial ,,..........
4. Zoögenous ,,..........
5. Venereal ,,759425
6. Septic ,,91492557
II. Parasitic Diseases1....12
III. Distic ,,91491244
IV. Constitutional Diseases ,,2292553142951,093
V. Developmental ,,136123106161526
VI. Local ,,9096855888573,039
1. Diseases of Nervous System172180152144648
2. ,, Organs of Special Sense452314
3. „ Circulatory System989392111394
4. ,, Respiratory ,,4762551524301,313
5. „ Digestive ,,827813089379
6. ,, Lymphatic ,,11428
7. ,, Glandlike Organs of uncertain use....2..2
8. „ Urinary System44413438157
9. ,, Reproductive System82191452
10. ,, Bones and Joints654520
11. ,, Integumentary18672152
VII. Violence51485156206
1. Accident or Negligence44433745169
2. Homicide......33
3. Suicide7514834
VIII. Ill-defined Causes8185134102402
All causes1,5971,4851,5581,7516,391