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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
Thus surrounded with Measles, the disease was sooner or later
certain to gain a fatal footing in Islington, and so it is found (vide
next table), after a few sporadic cases in the third' quarter, making
itself felt during the third week of the fourth quarter (42nd week of
the year), from which date until its close it was never absent.
Table XXXVIII.
| 1st Quarter. | 2nd Quarter. | 3rd Quarter. | 4th Quarter. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 27 | — | 40 | — |
| 2 | 3 | 15 | — | 28 | — | 41 | — |
| 3 | 3 | 15 | — | 29 | — | 42 | 2 |
| 4 | 2 | 17 | — | 30 | — | 43 | 5 |
| 6 | — | 18 | — | 31 | 1 | 44 | 6 |
| 6 | — | 19 | — | 32 | 2 | 45 | 5 |
| 7 | — | 20 | — | 33 | 1 | 46 | 4 |
| 8 | 3 | 21 | — | 34 | 1 | 47 | 9 |
| 9 | 1 | 22 | — | 35 | — | 48 | 6 |
| 10 | — | 23 | — | 36 | 1 | 49 | 8 |
| 11 | — | 24 | — | 37 | 1 | 50 | 8 |
| 12 | 2 | 25 | 1 | 38 | 1 | 51 | 6 |
| 13 | 26 | — | 39 | — | 52 | 13 | |
| Total | 15 | Total | 2 | Total | 8 | Total | 72 |
In the succeeding Tables the deaths are given from week to week
daring the fourth quarter as they occurred in the sub-districts and the
"Wards.