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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 XXV.
| SEASONS. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric (Typhoid Fever) | Diarrhœa. | Total Death Rate. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Quarter | .. | 0.30 | 0.29 | 0.39 | 0.39 | .. | 0.70 | 0.14 | 1.63 |
| Second Quarter | .. | 0.63 | 0.24 | 0.51 | 0.67 | .. | 0.09 | 0.65 | 2.81 |
| Third Quarter | 0.02 | 0.37 | 0.28 | 0.63 | 0.64 | .. | 0.15 | 1.87 | 2.23 |
| Fourth Quarter | •• | 0.13 | 0.32 | 0.76 | 0.50 | 0.01 | 0.21 | 0.20 | 2.17 |
| Year | 0.00 | 0.36 | 0.28 | 0.57 | 0.55 | 0.00 | 0.14 | 0.72 | 2.65 |
1st Quarter.—From the preceding Tables it is gathered that
Developmental and Respiratory Diseases, together with diseases of the
urinary organs, showed their most fatal record in the first quarter.
2nd Quarter.—Miasmatic (which includes the principal fevers)
and Septic diseases, and diseases of the nervous and reproductive
systems were responsible for their highest mortality in the second
quarter.
3rd Quarter.—Diarrhœal
and Constitutional Diseases, and diseases
of the digestive system reached their greatest mortality in the third
quarter; and in the
4th Quarter diseases of the circulatory and integumentary
systems, together with deaths from Violence, whether caused through
accident or negligence, or wilfully, were accredited with their highest
record.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The returns show that the deaths (871) from the principal zymotic
diseases were 173 above the number registered in 1892. These 871
deaths were also 37 above the corrected average (that is, the deaths
corrected for increased population) of the decennial period 1881-90.