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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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97
1898
PUERPERAL FEVER.
Only 19 cases as against an average of 32 were notified. They
were in the proportion of 2.86 to every 1,000 registered births.
1891 36 cases = 3-67 per 1,000 registered births.
1892 51 „ = 5.34 „ „
1893 38 „ = 3.90 „ „
1894 23 „ = 2.42 „ „
1895 22 „ = 2.23 „ „
1896 30 „ = 3.02 „ „
1897 27 „ = 2.74 „ „
Mean 32 „ = 3.28 „ „
1898 19 „ = 2.86 „ „

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

Table LXXVIII. 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 Holloway1....12
Islington, South West4..127
Islington, South East44....8
Highbury1....12
The Parish1041419