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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 XLVI. Showing the Death-rates for each Quarter in the several Sub-Districts.

Table XLVI. Showing the Death-rates for each Quarter in the several Sub-Districts.

Sub-Districts.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Whole Year.
Upper Holloway0·080·080·120·260·54
Islington, South-West0·030·15..0·220·41
Islington, South-East0·060·060·060·180·37
Highbury0·13..0·13••0·26
The Parish0·070·080·071·890·41

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CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
This large classification includes, among many others, such diseases
as Rheumatic Fever, Gout, Rickets, Cancer, and all tubercular ailments.
The most fatal of these was
Phthisis,
which caused 560 deaths, compared with 504 in the preceding year, and
544 in 1891. They produced a death-rate of 1·70 per 1,000 of the
population.
In the 10 years 1871-80 the yearly average number of deaths was
511, and the death-rate 2·06.
During the ten following years the average number of deaths was
498 per annum, and the mean annual death-rate l·66 per 1,000 inhabitants.

Table: These deaths were registered in the districts as follows:—

These deaths were registered in the districts as follows:—

Upper Holloway158=1.66 per 1,000 of population
Islington South West186=1.74 „ „
Islington South East134=2.06 „ „
Highbury82=1.34 „ „