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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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45 [1897

Table: Table XXVIII. Showing the Death-rates from the principal Zymotic Diseases, inclusive of the deaths of Parishioners in Hospitals outside the Parish.

Table XXVIII. Showing the Death-rates from the principal Zymotic Diseases, inclusive of the deaths of Parishioners in Hospitals outside the Parish.

districts.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Typhus Fever.Enteric (Typhoid Fever)Diarrhoea.TOTAL DEATH-RATES
Upper Holloway0.000.370.150.490.28..0.160.261.72
Islington, South West••0.240.210.330.42••0.110.692.01
Islington, South East••0.310.250.190.46..0.160.581.96
Highbury••0.180.100.260.38..0.070.511.51
Death-rates0.000.280.170.330.38••0.130.511.82

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DEATHS FROM THE ZYMOTIC DISEASES IN THE WARDS.
The death-rates from the Zymotic Diseases varied very considerably
in the various Wards, the lowest being that of St. Mary's (0.85) and
the highest that of Tollington (2.79).

Table: The several death-rates are arranged in the following statement in order of least to greatest fatal incidence of disease.

The several death-rates are arranged in the following statement in order of least to greatest fatal incidence of disease.

Wards.Death-rates.Deaths.
St. Mary's0.8515
Tufnell1.1237
Upper Holloway1.3751
West Highbury1.4253
East „1.6347
Canonbury2.0252
Barnsbury2.1149
Thornhill2.1271
Lower Holloway2.1490
St. Peter's2.1772
Tollington2.7985

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In the subsequent Tables (XXX. and XXXI.) will be found the
causes of the variations of the death-rates in the several Wards.