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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

Table: Table XXXV. Showing the deaths fromMeasles in the Sub-Districts for each quarter.

Table XXXV. Showing the deaths fromMeasles in the Sub-Districts for each quarter.

Sub-Districts.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Whole Year.
Upper Holloway1....3738
Islington, South West1..42126
Islington, South East1124421
Highbury2....1012
The Parish15287297

Table: Table XXXVI. Showing the death-rates fromMeasles of the Sub-Districts for eachquarter.

Table XXXVI. Showing the death-rates fromMeasles of the Sub-Districts for eachquarter.

Sub-Districts.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Whole Year.
Upper Hollo way0.03••••1.470.37
Islington, South West0.03••0.150.780.24
Islington, South East0.650.120.240.230.31
Highbury0.12••••0.600.18
The Parish0.170.020.090.840.28

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The death-rate of 0.28 was, with the exception of the rates of Stoke
Newington and Hornsey, lower than that experienced in any of the
Encircling Districts, whose aggregate rate was 0.28 per 1,000. It was also
lower than that of England and Wales (0.40), of the 33 Great Towns
(0.55), of the 67 Other Large Towns (0.43), or of the Rural Districts
(0.29). Consequently it must be considered good, even when contrasted
with the behaviour of the disease during the past twelve years in
Islington itself, the mortality for which period was at the rate of 0.56
per 1,000 of its inhabitants. Indeed, it was no less than 50 per cent.
below the average rate of those years, and would have been very much
less were it not for the sudden outbreak in the fourth quarter.
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