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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 1. (Local Government Board Return.)
Table of Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious sickness coming to the knowledge of the Medical
Officer of Health, during the year 1894, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Islington; classified according
to Diseases, Ages and Localities.
Sub-Districts.
Population at
all Ages.
Registered
Births.
Aged
under 5
or
over 5.
New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming to
the knowledge of the medical officer of Health.
Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in
the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation
Hospitals.
Census
1891.
Estimated
to
middle
of 1894.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Smallpox.
Scarlatina.
Diphtheria
Membranous
Croup.
Fevers.
Cholera.
Erysipelas.
Smallpox.
Scarlatina.
Diphtheria.
Membranous
Croup.
Fevers.
Cholera.
Erysipelas.
Typhus
Enteric
or
Typhoid.
Continued
Relapsing.
Puerperal.
Typhus.
Enteric
or
Typhoid.
Continued
Relapsing.
Puerperal.
(a)
(b.)
(e)
(d)
(e)
Upper Holloway
90,235
98,073
2,698
Under 5
2
131
78
1
...
5
...
...
...
...
6
...
...
2
72
35
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
5 upwds
24
388
201
3
...
60
2
...
9
...
98
...
...
21
222
67
1
...
37
...
...
1
...
34
...
...
Islington, South West
105,557
107,167
3,301
Under 5
4
171
103
7
...
4
...
...
...
...
12
...
...
3
109
62
...
...
3
...
...
...
...
3
...
...
5 upwds
19
356
177
5
1
74
1
...
7
...
107
...
...
19
256
98
1
...
40
...
...
1
...
20
...
...
Islington, South East
64,158
64,953
1,895
Under 5
4
66
58
4
...
2
1
...
...
...
5
...
...
4
31
29
3
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
5 upwds
30
165
87
2
...
55
...
...
2
...
75
...
...
29
116
39
2
...
41
...
...
...
...
13
...
...
Highbury
59,193
61,708
1,608
Under 5
...
52
44
1
...
3
...
...
...
...
3
...
...
...
26
19
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
5 upwas
3
154
87
1
...
40
3
...
4
...
46
...
...
1
82
25
...
...
21
1
...
...
...
6
...
...
Public Institutions
...
...
...
Under 5
...
...
6
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
6
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
5 upwds
...
7
4
...
...
3
...
...
1
...
43
...
...
...
7
4
...
...
3
...
...
1
...
40
...
...
Totals
319,143
331,901
9,502
Under 5
10
420
289
13
...
14
1
...
...
...
26
...
...
9
238
151
3
...
5
...
...
...
...
5
...
...
5 upwds
76
1,070
656
11
1
232
6
...
23
...
869
...
...
70
683
234
4
...
142
1
...
3
...
113
...
...