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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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25 [1898
In other places the birth-rate during the year has generally been
much higher than in Islington, as may be seen from the following
particulars:—
England and Wales 29.4 per 1.000.
33 Great Towns 30.3 „
67 Urban Districts 29.4 „
London 29.5 „
The Encircling Districts— 30.0 „
St. Pancras 28.2 „
Stoke Newington 24.2 „
Hackney 29.3 „
Hornsey 21.3 „
Clerkenwell 31.3 „
St. Luke 45.1 „
Shoreditch 35.1 „
Islington 27.39 „
In the towns whose populations exceed that of this Parish, the
birth-rates were: —
Birmingham 34.0 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Liverpool 35.2 „ „
Manchester 32.7 „ „
Leeds. 31.2 „ ,,
Sheffield 33.9
Fuller particulars as to the births in Islington are contained in the
succeeding tables:—