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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

Table: Table LXXIII.Showing the fatality fromEnteric Fever. (Deaths to 100 cases of Sickness).

Table LXXIII.Showing the fatality fromEnteric Fever. (Deaths to 100 cases of Sickness).

Sub-Districts.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Whole Year.
Upper Holloway10018.218.220.717.2
Islington, South West3767.111.516.715.4
Islington, South East100.040.026.333.3
Highbury28.6••7.78.79.6
The Parish17.518.415.617.817.2

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TYPHUS FEVER.
No case was known. (Vide Table 0, Appendix.)
ERYSIPELAS.
341 cases, equal to a case-rate of 0.91 per 1,000, were notified
Of these, 25 occurred in the Islington Workhouse Infirmary, chiefly
among aged and consequently weak people. It is a noteworthy fact
that no case was notified from the Great Northern Hospital.

Table: The cases were 149 below the corrected mean of the preceding six years:—

The cases were 149 below the corrected mean of the preceding six years:—

1891347 casesl-08 per 1,000 inhabitants.
1892550 ,,1.70 ,,
1893672 ,,2.05 ,,
1894395 ,,1.19 ,,
1895319 ,,1.00 ,,
1896385 ,,1.14 ,,
Corrected Mean46l ,,1.40 ,,
1897312 ,,0.91 ,,