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Islington 1896

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

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[1896

The several diseases and the resulting death-rates during 1896, together with the deaths during the preceding three years, were as follows:—

1893.1894.1896.1896.
Deaths.Deaths.Deaths.Deaths.Death-rate.
Small Pox2
Measles56106641411.29
Scarlet Fever402722170.15
Diphtheria686943960.86
Whooping Cough737937650.60
Typhus Fever
Enteric Fever14128120.10
Diarrhœa892765480.43
Total3403222393793.46

South-east Islington.
There were 191 deaths from the Zymotic diseases entered in the
registers, contrasted with 130 in 1895, 135 in 1894, and 171 in 1893.
The death-rate was 2.81 per 1,000. In this district, as in the others
already mentioned, the deaths from Measles, Diphtheria and Whooping
Cough were the chief factors in the increased mortality. In proportion
to the population these diseases were 0.79, 0.53 and 0.72 per
1,000. The death-rate from Measles was only exceeded by the rate
experienced in South-west Islington, while that from Whooping Cough
was only less than the rate in Upper Holloway.

The following statement gives the deaths from the Zymotic Diseases for the three preceding years, as well as the deaths and death-ratea from the same diseases in 1896:—

1893.1894.1895.1896.
Deaths.DeathsDeaths.Deaths.Death-rates.
Small Pox
Measles242334640.79
Scarlet Fever141414130.19
Diphtheria483727360.53
Whooping Cough303017490.72
Typhus Fever
Enteric Fever810680.11
Diarrhœa472132310.46
Total1711351301912.81