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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 XXIX.
| Wards. | First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | Year. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths. | Death-rates. | Deaths. | Death-rates. | Deaths. | Death-rates. | Deaths. | Death-rates. | Deaths. | Death-rates. | |
| Tufnell | 5 | 0.60 | 4 | 0.48 | 12 | 1.45 | 16 | 1.94 | 37 | 1.12 |
| Upper Holloway | 15 | 1.62 | 7 | 0.75 | 17 | 1.83 | 12 | 1.29 | 51 | 1.37 |
| Tollington | 11 | 1.45 | 8 | 1.05 | 19 | 2.49 | 47 | 6.17 | 85 | 2.79 |
| Lower Holloway | 19 | 1.81 | 12 | 1.14 | 34 | 3.23 | 25 | 2.38 | 90 | 2.14 |
| West Highbury | 8 | 0.85 | 2 | 0.21 | 29 | 3.10 | 14 | 1.50 | 53 | 1.42 |
| East Highbury | 13 | 1.81 | 3 | 0.42 | 19 | 2.65 | 12 | 1.67 | 47 | 1.63 |
| Thornhill | 10 | 1.19 | 6 | 0.72 | 38 | 4.53 | 17 | 2.03 | 71 | 2.12 |
| Barnsbury | 8 | 1.38 | 0.34 | 24 | 4.15 | 15 | 2.59 | 49 | 2.11 | |
| St. Mary's | 3 | 0.68 | 1 | 0.23 | 7 | 1.58 | 4 | 0.90 | 15 | 0.85 |
| Canonbury | 10 | 1.56 | 8 | 1.25 | 21 | 3.27 | 13 | 2.02 | 52 | 2.02 |
| St. Peter's | 20 | 2.41 | 9 | 1.09 | 32 | 3.86 | 11 | 1.32 | 72 | 2.17 |
| Totals | 122 | 1.43 | 62 | 0.72 | 252 | 2.95 | 186 | 2.18 | 622 | 1.82 |