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1898] 32
MORTALITY IN THE SUB-REGISTRATION DISTRICTS.
Upper Holloway.
There were 1,530 deaths registered, equal to annual death-rate of
only l5.O per 1,000, which is 3.17 below the average rate of the
preceding seven years, and is only very slightly above the rate (14.75)
experienced in 1897.
It is a noteworthy fact about this district that ever since 1892 the
death-rate, which was then 23.39 per 1,000, has steadily declined until
it has fallen in the last two years to 14.75 and 1500. This is very
satisfactory, and shows that the sanitary work which has been done in
it has not been without its effect.
South West Islington.
The number of deaths was 2,050, as against an annual corrected
average of 2,030, and the death-rate was 18.94, compared with a mean
rate of 18.76 which obtained during the years 1891-7.
South East Islington.
1,194 deaths were registered, representing a death-rate of 17.64, and
are 34 below the corrected average of the preceding seven years, during
which period the death-rate averaged 18.15 per 1,000.
Highbury.
The mortality returns were particularly good the deaths numbering
931, or 76 below the corrected mean of the preceding seven years,
and the death-rate being 13.87 as against a mean rate of 15 01.
In the Western portion of the sub-district (he death-rate was
14.20, and in the Eastern only 13.44 per 1,000.
The annexed statement shows how the sub-districts contrasted
with towns whose populations are as nearly as possible the same as
their own.
In every instance these towns are far less densely populated than
the sub-districts.