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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
PUERPERAL FEVER.
The returns show that 27 women were attacked with this disease
after childbirth. This number is 6 below the average of the six
years 1891-6, and 7 below the mean. The cases represent a rate of
2-74 per 1,000 registered births.

Table: The fatality was 35.7 per cent., which is only slightly less than that of 1896, when it was 36 6 per cent.

The fatality was 35.7 per cent., which is only slightly less than that of 1896, when it was 36 6 per cent.

189136 cases3.67 per 1,000 registered births.
189251 ,,5.34 ,, ,,
189338 ,,3.90 ,, ,,
189423 ,,2.42 ,, ,,
189522 ,,2.23 ,, ,,
189630 ,,3.02 ,, ,,
Mean33 ,,3.40 ,, ,,
189727 ,,2.74 ,, ,,

Table: Table LXXVII. Showing the sickness from Puerperal Fever in the Sub Districts foreach Quarter.

Table LXXVII. Showing the sickness from Puerperal Fever in the Sub Districts foreach Quarter.

Sub-Districts.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Whole Year.
Upper Holloway622313
Islington, South West31239
Islington, South East1••••12
Highbury11114
The Parish1145828