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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 1896

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

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Table: Table D. Showing the Deaths from All Causes registered in each District during the Fifty Three Weeks ending 2nd January 1897, at three periods of life.

Table D. Showing the Deaths from All Causes registered in each District during the Fifty Three Weeks ending 2nd January 1897, at three periods of life.

Causes of Death.Upper Holloway.TotalIslington, South West.TotalIslington, South East.TotalHighbury.Total
Under 11 to 5Over 5Under 11 to 5Over 5Under 11 to5Over 5Under 11 to 5Over 5
I. Specific, Febrile, &c.1031438032611121482407639946208477349169
II. Parasitic Diseases1......11...12......11............
III. Dietic Diseases1...562...16181...783...69
IV. Constitutional Diseases2931215275463631439631291972571317164194
V. Developmental Diseases4115910177...8316042...377949...4190
VI. Local Diseases1389553877120912660794298693685358234340456
VII. Deaths from Violence1633554242447071328481231934
VIII. Deaths from Ill-defined Causes663...6991103104463...49404145
TOTALS3952769321603561388115020992882136841185246131620997
i. Specific or Febrile Causes.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases60136692656421069343389632166257040135
Small PoxVaccinated................................................
Unvaccinated......11....................................
Unknown................................................
Measles10367533610141411439154729440
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina)161017...981718413...8210
Diphtheria453298645833952201436...201030
Whooping Cough4340487233946620281491712332
Typhus Fever................................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever2...1113......1212......88111113
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever...............1...1......11............
Influenza......77128111135......1010
Other Miasmatic Diseases...1...1....................................
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases407350424248233531202224
Simple Cholera102...12...............1...11......1
Cholera................................................
Diarrhœa, Dysentery305338424248232530192223
3.—Malarial Diseases................................................
Remittent Fever................................................
Ague................................................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases................................................
Cow Pox, Effects of Vaccination................................................
Hydrophobia................................................
Glanders................................................
Splenic Fever................................................
5.—Venereal Diseases1...124......4............1124
Syphilis1...124......4............1113
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra..........................................11
6.—Septic Diseases2...791...11122...9111...56
Erysipelas1...561...232...131...34
Pyæmia, Septicæmia1...12......33......44......22
Puerperal Fever......11......66......44............
II. Parasitic Diseases1......11...12......11............
Thrush............1......1........................
Hydatids................................................
Worms..................11........................
Other Animal Parasitical Diseases1......1..................11............