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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 XXIII.
Deaths and Death-rates from all causes in the Four Quarters for
the Sub-districts, together with the death-rates in London and the
33 great Towns.
Sub-Districts.
1st.
2nd.
3rd.
4th.
Year.
Deaths.
Deathrate.
Deaths.
Deathrate.
Deaths.
Deathrate.
Deaths
Deathrate.
Deaths.
Deathrate.
Upper Holloway
433
18.14
373
15.62
431
18.05
465
19.48
1,702
17.78
Islington, S.-West
552
20.75
567
21.31
564
21.20
620
22.31
2,303
21.60
Islington, S.-East
345
21.28
314
19.37
333
20.54
386
23.81
1,378
21.20
Highbury
267
17.56
231
15.19
230
15.13
280
18.42
1,008
18.42
The Parish
1,597
19.48
1,485
18.11
1,558
19.00
1,751
21.36
6,391
19.45
London
—
22.1
—
19.5
—
20.5
—
23.1
—
21.3
33 Large Towns
—
22.0
—
19.8
—
21.8
—
22.5
—
21.6
Table XXIV.
| SEASONS. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric (Typhoid Fever) | Diarrhœa. | TOTALS. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Quarter | .. | 25 | 24 | 32 | 32 | ... | 9 | 12 | 134 |
| Second „ | .. | 52 | 20 | 42 | 55 | .. | 8 | 54 | 231 |
| Third „ | 2 | 31 | 23 | 52 | 53 | .. | 13 | 154 | 328 |
| Fourth „ | .. | 11 | 27 | 63 | 41 | 1 | 18 | 17 | 178 |
| Year | 2 | 119 | 94 | 189 | 181 | 1 | 48 | 237 | 871 |
| 1892 | 2 | 169 | 52 | 130 | 149 | .. | 38 | 158 | 698 |