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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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1897] 36
Fourth Quarter.—The deaths numbered 1,558 and the death-rate
was 18.26 per 1,000. This increase in the rate was a disappointment
for the earlier returns gave promise of a much lower mortality.
Indeed, the first seven weeks of the quarter seemed to point to an
unusually favourable record, but the advent of fogs in November, which
continued without interruption to the end of the year, together with
the outbreak of Measles and Whooping Cough, destroyed the
anticipation.
Notwithstanding these circumstances the deaths were only
27 above the corrected average for twelve years, and were equal to an
increase in the death-rate of 0.32 per 1,000.

Table: Table XXI. Showing theDeaths and Death-rates fromAll Causes in theFour Quarters and in theSub-districts,together with theDeath-rates in the Parish during the same periods.

Table XXI. Showing theDeaths and Death-rates fromAll Causes in theFour Quarters and in theSub-districts,together with theDeath-rates in the Parish during the same periods.

Quarters.Upper Holloway.South-west Islington.South-east Islington.Highbury.The Parish.
Deaths.Death-rate.Deaths.Death-rate.DeathsDeath-rate.Deaths.Death-rate.Deaths.Death-rate.
First Quarter36514.5549618.4031418.7024614.911,42116.65
Second Quarter31712.6435413.1326115.541499.031,08112.67
Third Quarter33513.3547117.4729317.4523614.311,33515.64
Fourth Quarter46418.4953419.8030518.1525515.461.55818.26
The Year1,48114.751,85517.201,17317.4688613.435,39515.80