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Seventy-five deaths occurred among persons under 15 years old, 83
between the ages of 15 and 25, 130 between the ages of 25 and 35, 125
between 35 and 45, 84 between 45 and 55, while 63 were above the
latter age.

In England during the last quinquennial period the death-rate was
1.63 per 1,000 inhabitants, so that the death-rate of Islington cannot
be considered unsatisfactory.
TABES MESENTERICA.
This is eminently a disease of childhood. It caused 113 deaths, of
which 64 were among male and 49 among female children. The disease
was most fatal to infants under one year old, of whom 83 died from its
effects, while 27 deaths occurred among children between the ages of 12
months and five years.
It was most fatal in Islington South East, where 43 deaths
occurred; next came Islington South West with 30 deaths; then
Upper Holloway with 25 ; and, lastly, Highbury with 15.
It was most fatal in the third quarter, when 46 deaths were
registered. This is usually the case, for this period is particularly
trying to children with delicate bowels, who are invariably attacked
with diarrhoea, which is very generally given as a secondary cause of
death. The deaths in the quarters were consecutively 15, 32, 46,
and 20.
CANCER.
Cancer was fatal to 82 males and 156 females, making a total of
238 persons, and produced a death-rate of 0.71 per 1,000 inhabitants.