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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 XLVI. Showing the Death-rates of the Parish and of the several Encircling Sanitary Districts from All Causrs, from the principal Zymotic Diseases, and from Phthisis in the Year 1896.
| DISTRICTS. | Estimated Population. | Total Deathrates from all Causes. | Total Zymotic Death-rates. | Death-rates from Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Death-rates from Phthisis. | Death-rate of Infact under 1 year of age | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Undefined Fevers. | Diarrhœa. | ||||||
| St. Pancras | 241,066 | 18.1 | 2.47 | .. | 0.54 | 0.15 | 0.40 | 0.52 | .. | 0.13 | .. | 0.73 | 1.93 | 168 |
| Stoke Newington | 33,615 | 12.7 | 2.35 | .. | 0.15 | 0.23 | 0.56 | 0.47 | .. | 0.15 | •• | 0.79 | 0.82 | 126 |
| Hackney | 213,774 | 15.7 | 2.8l | .. | 0.44 | 0.17 | 0.47 | 0.68 | 0.00 | 0.17 | 0.00 | 0.88 | 1.41 | 146 |
| Hornsey | 62,076 | 9.6 | 1.15 | .. | 0.10 | 0.16 | 0.2 I | 0.28 | •. | 0.10 | .. | 0.30 | •• | 105 |
| Clerkenwell | 66,195 | 20.7 | 3.78 | .. | 0.79 | 0.22 | 0.62 | 0.62 | •• | 0.22 | .. | 1.31 | 2.16 | 184 |
| St. Luke | 41,478 | 25.1 | 3.82 | .. | 0.83 | 0.50 | 0.62 | 0.55 | •• | 0.09 | •• | 1.23 | 2.92 | 154 |
| Shoreditch | 122,265 | 21.4 | 4.31 | 0.0l | 1.15 | 0.31 | 0.60 | 1.01 | •• | 0.14 | •• | 1.09 | 1.87 | 180 |
| All above Districts | 780,469 | 17.5 | 2.91 | 0.00 | 0.59 | 0.21 | 0.47 | 0.63 | 0.00 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 0.87 | 1.64 | 1.60 |
| Islington | 337,661 | 17.09 | 2.99 | 0.00 | 0.83 | 0.16 | 0.71 | 0.68 | .. | 0.13 | 0.00 | 0.44 | 1.54 | 150 |