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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 D. Showing the Deaths from All Causes registered in each District during the Fifty Two Weeks ending 1st January 1898, at three periods of life.

Table D. Showing the Deaths from All Causes registered in each District during the Fifty Two Weeks ending 1st January 1898, at three periods of life.

Causes of Death.Upper Holloway.TotalIslington, South West.TotalIslington, South East.TotalHighbury.Total
Under 11 to 5Over 5Under'11 to5Over 5Under 11 to5Over 5Under 11 to5Over 5
I. Specific. Febrile, &c4594601991029265259425846140533428115
II. Parasitic Diseases................................................
III. Dietic Diseases......881...910......772...68
IV. Constitutional Diseases2520232277433529437220232112001216147175
V. Developmental Diseases51...6811982...961784016411134...5084
VI. Local Diseases1297453673917411058380789554015457137335443
VII. Deaths from Violence124314721847701242844711119
VIII. Deaths from 111 defined Causes853492798893571260381342
TOTALS347195939148150225311001855272142759117321789580880
I. Specific or Febrile Causes.
1. Miasmatic Diseases22865318129824715814523510118332475
Vaccinated................................................
Small Pox J Unvaccinated................................................
Unknown1......1....................................
Measles533...3841932611732129112
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina)9615...11112219717...347
Diphtheria...301949525636...851319717
Whooping Cough1414...28192614610183311510...25
Typhus Fever................................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever......1616......1212......1111......55
Simple Continued & Ill-definedFever................................................
Influenza2...12141114162...68...279
Other Miasmatic Diseases................................................
2.—Diarrhceal Diseases1772266110475275739331...34
Simple Cholera...1...1...213......112......2
Cholera................................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery176225618372275638311...32
3.—Malarial Diseases................................................
Remittent Fever................................................
Ague................................................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases................................................
Cow Pox, Effects of Vaccination................................................
Hydrophobia................................................
Glanders................................................
Splenic Fever................................................
6.—Venereal Diseases31...411...2131......12......2
Syphilis31...411...2131......12......2
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra................................................
6—Septic Diseases3...581...1213...145......44
Erysipelas2...35......22......22......22
Pyæmia, Septicæmia1...11...56...1...1......11
Puerperal Fever......22......55......22......11
II. Parasitic Diseases................................................
Thrush................................................
Hydatids................................................
Worms................................................
Other Animal Parasitical Diseases................................................