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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 1898

Forty-third annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington

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1898

Table: Table LXXIV. Showing the fatality from Enteric Fever. (Deaths to 100 cases of Sickness).

Table LXXIV. Showing the fatality from Enteric Fever. (Deaths to 100 cases of Sickness).

Sub-Districts.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Whole Year.
Upper Holloway7.7..23.113.312.5
Islington, South West..10.014.325.014.5
Islington, South East28.620.036.45.517.8
Highbury14.325.07.122.217.0
The Parish9.712.518.616.215.2

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TYPHUS FEVER.
No case was known. (Vide Table 0, Appendix.)

Table: ERYSIPELAS. The cases were 165 below the corrected mean of the preceding seven years:-

ERYSIPELAS. The cases were 165 below the corrected mean of the preceding seven years:-

1891343 cases= 1.07 per 1,000 inhabitants.
1892550 „= 1.70 „ „
1893672 „= 2.05 „ „
1894395 „= 1.19 „ „
1895319 „= 1.00 „ „
1896385 „= 1.14 „ „
1897312 „= 0.91 „ „
Corrected Mean444 „= 1.29 „ „
1898279 „= 0.80 „ „