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27 [1897
In the future it is to be hoped that reference to the extraordinary
low mortality of the distant past will not be made in order to disparage
the present healthy condition of Islington. In the face of the facts just
mentioned it will not be possible to quote the rates in column 7 as exact
unless there be a deliberate intention to deceive.
The death-rate (15.8) of the Parish was nearly 2 per 1,000 less
than that of the Metropolis as a whole. Out of the 43 London sanitary
areas only 8 showed a lower crude death-rate, and only 7 a lower
corrected death-rate, than Islington, while the population of none of
these came within 150,000 of that of the Parish.

Such a record is highly satisfactory.
Islington is surrounded by seven populous districts, and a comparison
of their death-rates with ours is always instructive. With the
exception of Stoke Newington and Hornsey none showed nearly so low
returns as those of Islington. The several death-rates were as follows:—
Population.
Crude
Death-rates.
Corrected
Death-rates.
St. Pancras 242,255 18.65 20.01
Hackney 216,698 16.48 17.26
Stoke Newington 34,136 14.30 15.34
Hornsey 65,282 8.98 —
Clerkenwell 66,162 22.05 24.49
St. Luke 41,279 25.60 27.77
Shoreditch 121,883 21.56 22.42
The above Districts 787,695 18.16 —
Islington 341,319 15.80 16.90