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33 [1897

First Quarter.— The 1,421 deaths were the lowest returns since
1885, the year in which the Registrar-General first collected and
distributed the deaths of persons dying in public institutions without
their several districts. The death-rate was 16.65 per 1,000. In this
period, also, 122 persons died from the Zymotic Diseases, which was
the most favourable return for this period of the year with one exception
(1895) since 1885.
Second Quarter.—The returns for this quarter were extraordinarily
good, being not only a record for Islington for any period of three
months, but probably for any community of a similar size. The deaths
numbered 1,081, and the death-rate was only 12.67 per 1,000.
There had been no approach to this return in any quarter since
1885 (which, as already shown, is the first year for which absolutely
reliable data are available, with the exception of the third quarter of
1888) when the deaths numbered 1,072, and the death-rate was 13.88.
If the population of that year had been as large as it was last year the
deaths would have numbered 1,184, or 103 more than the return under
discussion.
1888—3rd quarter, corrected deaths 1,184 = 13.88 per 1,000
1897—2nd „ „ „ 1,081 = 12.67 „
Difference 103 = 1.22 „
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