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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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47 [1897
Table XXX.
| wards. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Contirued and Ill-defined Fevers. | Diarrhœa. | Total Zymotic Deaths. | Death-rates from Zymotic Diseases. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tufnell | .. | 3 | 5 | 11 | 6 | .. | 5 | .. | 7 | 37 | 1.12 |
| Upper Holloway | 1 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 11 | .. | 3 | .. | 13 | 51 | 1.38 |
| Tollington | .. | 34 | 2 | 24 | 11 | .. | 8 | .. | 6 | 85 | 2.79 |
| Lower Holloway | .. | 9 | 6 | 13 | 27 | .. | 4 | .. | 31 | 90 | 2 .14 |
| West Highbury | .. | 8 | 4 | 5 | 10 | .. | 2 | .. | 24 | 53 | 1.42 |
| East Highbury | .. | 4 | 3 | 12 | 15 | .. | 3 | .. | 10 | 47 | 1.64 |
| Thornhill | .. | 6 | 8 | 14 | 11 | .. | 4 | .. | 28 | 71 | 2.12 |
| Barnsbury | .. | 10 | 6 | 7 | 7 | .. | 4 | .. | 15 | 49 | 2.12 |
| St. Mary's | .. | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 15 | 0.85 |
| Canonbury | .. | 4 | 4 | 9 | 13 | .. | 5 | .. | 17 | 52 | 2.03 |
| St. Peter's | .. | 16 | 12 | 4 | 14 | .. | 6 | .. | 20 | 72 | 2.17 |
| Totals | 1 | 97 | 61 | 115 | 130 | .. | 44 | .. | 174 | 622 | 1.82 |