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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: Table XXVI. Showing the Death-rates from the principal Zymotic Diseases, inclusive of the deaths of Parishioners in Hospitals outside the Parish.

Table XXVI. Showing the Death-rates from the principal Zymotic Diseases, inclusive of the deaths of Parishioners in Hospitals outside the Parish.

districts.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Typhus Fever.Enteric (Typhoid Fever)Diarrhœa.TOTAL DEATH-RATE
Upper Holloway0000.520.160.850.86..0.120.493.05
South-west Islington..1.290.150.860.60..0.100.433.46
South-east „..0.790.190.530.72..0.110.452.81
Highbury..0.600.150.450.48..0.190.362.85
Death-rates0.000.830.160.710.68..0.130. 442.98

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It now becomes necessary to examine in detail the deaths from the
several Zymotic Diseases and to contract their present behaviour with
that in past years in the Parish, as well as with the mortality which
they caused in other populous places during the year under consideration.
MORTALITY FROM THE SEVERAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
SMALL POX.
Only one death from Small Pox was recorded during the year, as
against an annual average, corrected for increase of population for
eleven years, of 14. This death occurred in the third quarter of the
year, and in the sub-registration district of Upper Holloway. The
patient, a male, aged eight years, was unvaccinated.