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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 1894

Thirty-ninth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington

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Table: Table IX.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.

Table IX.

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.

1st.2nd.3rd.4th.Year.
Sub-Districts.Deaths.Death-rate.Deaths.Death-rate.Deaths.Death-rate.Deaths.Death-rate.Deaths.Death-rate.
Upper Holloway48419.7934914.2729912.2232613.331,45814.86
Islington, S.-West54720.4548518.1341415.4841315.441,85917.34
Islington, S.-East30418.7525515.7324615.1727617.021,08116.64
Highbury27818.0719512.6717211.1822014.3086514.01
The Parish1,61319.351,28415.401,13113.571,23514.825,26315.85
London—21.1—17.4—15.9—16.617.7
33 Largo Towns—20.7—17.4—16.4—17.7—18.0

Table: Table x.Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the Four Quarters.

Table x.

Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the Four Quarters.

seasons.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Typhus Fever.Enteric (Typhoid Fever)Diarrhoea.TOTALS.
First Quarter..66166470..87231
Second „2118246059..77277
Third ,,114174533..568183
Fourth ,,..1123926..1611105
Year319969208188..3693796
1893 ......211994189181148237871