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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
72
England and Wales 156 per 1,000 births.
Rural Districts 138 „
33 Great Towns 177 „
67 Other Large Towns 169 „
London 158 ,,
Birmingham 214 „
Liverpool 200 „
Manchester 195 „
Leeds 190 „
Sheffield 198
The Encircling Districts 160 „
Hornsey 102 „
Stoke Newington 121 „
Hackney 147 „
Shoreditch 183 „
St. Luke 149 „
Clerkenwell 184 „
St. Pancras 168 „
Islington 136 „
The mortality in the several quarters was as follows:—
1st quarter
296
deaths =
115
per 1,000 births.
2nd „
216
,, =
90
,, ,,
3rd „
446
,, =
183
,, ,,
4 th „
380
,, =
156
,, ,,
The year
1,338
,, =
136
,, ,,
The excessive mortality in the third quarter was due to the
prevalence of summer diarrhoea.
The infantile mortality rates in the several sub-districts were—
Deaths,
Upper Holloway
119
per 1,000 births.
Islington South West
153
,, ,,
„ South East
136
,, ,,
Highbury
131
,, ,,
The Parish
136
,, ,,