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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
ERYSIPELAS.
From this disease 11 persons died, compared with 16 in the
preceding year and a corrected average of 19 in the years 1891-96.
The death-rate was 003 per 1,000 inhabitants.

Table: The deaths and death-rates in each district were as follows:—

The deaths and death-rates in each district were as follows:—

Deaths.Death-rates.
Upper Holloway50.04 per 1,000 inhabitants
Islington, South-west20.02 ,, ,,
„ South-east20.03 ,, ,,
Highbury20.03 ,, ,,
Islington110.03 ,, ,,

Table: During the preceding six years the deaths have been—

During the preceding six years the deaths have been—

Deaths.Death-rate.
189190.03per 1,000 inhabitants.
1892200.06,, ,,
1893340.10,, ,,
1894150.04,, ,,
1895160.05,, ,,
1896160.05,,,,
Corrected Mean190.06,,,,
1897110.03,,,,

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CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Constitutional Diseases, collectively, caused 1,084 deaths, which
are equal to a death-rate of 3.18 per 1,000 inhabitants. These deaths
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