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 LIII. Showing the Death-rates from, All. Causes, from the principal Zymotic Diseases, together with Infantile Mortality, in the Country, in the Populous Towns, in Towns whose populations exceed 300,000 inhabitants and in Islington.
All Cause*. | Principal Zymotic Diseaser (Cols. 3.9). | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Fever. | Diarrhœa. | Deaths under Year to 1.coo Births. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cols. | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. | 7. | 8. | 9. | 10. |
England and Wales | 17.4 | 2.15 | 0.00 | 0.40 | 0.14 | 0.24 | 0.35 | 0.16 | 0.86 | 156 |
33 Great Towns | 19.1 | 2.87 | 0.00 | 0.55 | 0.18 | 0.31 | 0. 41 | 0.18 | 1.24 | 177 |
67 Other Large Towns | 17.2 | 2.41 | 0.00 | 0.43 | 0.16 | 0.24 | 0.38 | 0.16 | 1.05 | 169 |
England & Wales} less the 100 Towns } | 16.4 | 1.62 | 0.00 | 0.29 | 0.12 | 0.19 | 0.31 | 0.14 | 0.67 | 138 |
London | 17.7 | 2.56 | 0.00 | 0.43 | 0.17 | 0.50 | 0.41 | 013 | 0.92 | 158 |
Birmingham | 21.6 | 3.88 | .. | 0.79 | 0.18 | 0.29 | 0.4 4 | 0.18 | 2.00 | 214 |
Liverpool | 24.4 | 3.83 | .. | 0.54 | 0.33 | 0.20 | 0.56 | 0.27 | 1.93 | 200 |
Manchester" | 23.1 | 3.81 | .. | 1.18 | 0.23 | 0.09 | 0.56 | 0.19 | 1.56 | 195 |
Leeds | 19.9 | 2.80 | .. | 0.40 | 0.23 | 0.16 | 0.24 | 0.20 | 1.67 | 190 |
Sheffield | 21.2 | 3.49 | .. | 0.56 | 0'26 | 0.13 | 0.40 | 0.31 | 1.83 | 198 |
St. Fancras | 18.7 | 2.47 | 0.00 | 0.35 | 0.10 | 0.47 | 0.61 | 0.16 | 0.87 | 168 |
Stoke Newington | 14.3 | 2.12 | .. | 0.21 | 0.06 | 0.o6 | 0.44 | 0.29 | 0.56 | 121 |
Hackney | 16.5 | 2.90 | .. | 0.69 | 0.17 | 0.62 | 0.45 | 0.16 | 0.91 | 147 |
Hornsey | 9.3 | 1.22 | .. | 0.12 | 0.03 | 0.27 | 0.17 | .. | 0.63 | 102 |
Clerkenwell | 22 1 | 3.61 | 0.02 | 0.74 | 0.21 | 0.73 | 0.74 | 0.17 | 1.00 | 184 |
St. Luke | 25.7 | 3.82 | .. | 0.97 | 0.32 | 0.51 | 0.68 | 0.10 | 1.24 | 149 |
Shoreditch | 21.6 | 4.0 | 0.01 | 0.95 | 0 .24 | 0.64 | 0.52 | 0.16 | 1.55 | 183 |
Encircling Districts | 18.16 | 2.86 | 0.00 | 0.55 | 0.15 | 0.55 | 0.49 | 0.15 | 0.97 | 160 |
Islington | 15.8 | 1.82 | 0.00 | 0.28 | 0.17 | 0.33 | 0.38 | 0.13 | 0.51 | 136 |