Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Forty-second annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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1897]
Table LII. Showing the Death-rates of the Parish and of the several Encircling Sanitary Districts from All Causes, from the principal Zymotic Diseases, and from Phthisis in the 52 weeks of the year 1897.
| THE ENCIRCLING DISTRICTS. | Estimated Populations. | Total Death-rates from All Causes. | Total Zymotic Death-rates. | Death-rates from Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Death-rates from Phthisis. | Deaths under 1 year to 1,000 Births. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Undefined Fevers. | Diarrhoea. | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| St. Pancras | 242,255 | 18.65 | 2.46 | 0.00 | 0.36 | 0.10 | 0.47 | 0.51 | .. | 0.15 | .. | 0.86 | 2.01 | 168 |
| Stoke Newington | 34,136 | 14.30 | 2.1 1 | .. | 0.20 | 0.06 | 0.56 | 0.44 | .. | 0.29 | .. | 0.56 | 1.17 | 111 |
| Hackney | 216,698 | 16.48 | 2.88 | .. | 0.59 | 0.17 | 0.62 | 0.44 | .. | 0.16 | .. | 0.90 | 1.43 | 147 |
| Hornsey | 65,282 | 8.98 | 1.04 | .. | 0.11 | 0.03 | 0.26 | 0.15 | .. | .. | .. | 0.49 | 0.63 | 102 |
| Clerkenwell | 66,162 | 22.05 | 3.60 | 0.01 | 0.74 | 0. 21 | 0.72 | 0.74 | .. | 0.17 | .. | 1.00 | 2.34 | 184 |
| St. Luke | 41,279 | 25.60 | 3.80 | .. | 0.97 | 0.31 | 0.51 | 0.68 | .. | 0.09 | .. | 1.24 | 3.10 | 149 |
| Shoreditch | 121,883 | 21.56 | 4.08 | 0.01 | 0.95 | 0.25 | 0.64 | 0.52 | .. | 0.16 | .. | 1.55 | 2.03 | 183 |
| The above Districts | 787,695 | 18.16 | 2.86 | 0.00 | 0.55 | 0.15 | 0.55 | 0.49 | .. | 0.15 | .. | 0.97 | 1.79 | 160 |
| Islington | 341,319 | 15.80 | 18.2 | 0.00 | 0.28 | 0.17 | 0.33 | 0.38 | .. | 0.13 | .. | 0.51 | 1.52 | 136 |