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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 1897

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

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Table: Table IX. Showing the Population, Births and Birth-rates in the several decades since 1841, in the six years 1891—6, and in 1897.

Table IX. Showing the Population, Births and Birth-rates in the several decades since 1841, in the six years 1891—6, and in 1897.

Periods.Mean Population in each Decade.Number of Births in each Period.Birth Rates.Average Yearly Number of Births, corrected on the basis of the Population of 1897.
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1841—5072,76720,85028.659,781
1851—60121,35341,91534.5411,792
1861—70181,52967,52037.2012,697
1871—80244,88489,62736.6012,492
1881—90299,85797,64782.5611,114
1891—96 (6 years)328,76758,40029.6010,105
1897341,3199,84228.839,842

Table: The following statement gives the birth-rates for the country as well as for the populous places:—

The following statement gives the birth-rates for the country as well as for the populous places:—

England and Wales30.7 per 1.000.
33 Great Towns30.7 „
67 Urban Districts30.1 „
London30.0 „
The Encircling Districts—30.2 „
St. Pancras29.0 „
Stoke Newington24.5 „
Hackney29.2 „
Hornsey22.5 „
Clerkenwell31.7 „
St. Luke45.2 „
Shoreditch35.5 „
Islington28.8 „