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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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1896]

Table: are several of the lesser towns, however, of about its size, and I append their death-rates:—

are several of the lesser towns, however, of about its size, and I append their death-rates:—

Population.Persons to an acre.Death-rate.
Southampton87,37043.618.6
Reading66,73911.413.6
Northampton66,43250.715.8
York70,86719.018.1
Merthyr Tidfil64,5913.621.2
Islington, South-east66,671144.017.4

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Highbury.
997 deaths were recorded as against 939 in 1895, and an average
of 931 in the preceding four years. The latter figure becomes 949 on
correction for 53 weeks, so that the present return is 48 in excess of
the average. Nevertheless it is very good, for it represents a death-rate
of only 15.08 per 1,000 inhabitants, a rate which contrasts very favourably
with those towns about the size of Highbury, which I mentioned when
dealing with Islington South-west.

Table: Table XV. Showing the deaths and death-rates in the several Sub-districts 1892-5and in 1896.

Table XV. Showing the deaths and death-rates in the several Sub-districts 1892-5and in 1896.

Years.Upper Holloway,S.W. Islington.S.E. Islington.Highbury.
Deaths.Death RatesDeaths.Death Rates.Deaths.Death Rates.Deaths.Death Rates.
18922,05322.301,66716.721,05416.2891115.05
18931,70218.142,30821.651,37821.121,00316.37
18941,45815.301,85917.41,08116.4586513.80
18951,56416.122,02318.901,23418.6593914.73
Corrected mean1,76717.901,98018.421,20918.1397214.98
18961,60315.932,09919.161,16517.4499715.08