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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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41 [1898
Fourth Quarter.—This was the healthiest fourth quarter hitherto
experienced in Islington, for its deaths, 1,279, only equalled a death.
rate of 14.79 per 1,000 inhabitants.
The corrected average number of deaths for this period had been
1,551, so that there was a decrease of 275 deaths, while the death.rate
itself fell from a mean of 17 98 to 14.79 per 1,000.
In the following Table are collected for the first time the deaths and death.rates of each quarter since 1885 :—
| Years. | QUARTERS. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First. | Second. | Third. | Fourth. | Annual. | ||||||
| Deaths | Death-Rates. | Deaths | Death-Hates. | Deaths | Death-Rates | Deaths | Death.Rates. | Deaths | Death-Rates. | |
| 1883 | 1,551 | 20.83 | 1,445 | 19.40 | 1,392 | 18.68 | 1,352 | 18.15 | 5,740 | 19.3 |
| 1886 | 1,675 | 22.22 | 1,151 | 15.26 | 1,364 | 18.09 | 1,244 | 16.50 | 5,434 | 18.0 |
| 1387 | 1,474 | 19.32 | 1,365 | 17.89 | 1,450 | 1900 | 1,410 | 18.48 | 5,699 | 18.7 |
| 1888 | 1,629 | 21.09 | 1,163 | 15.05 | 1,072 | 13.88 | 1,333 | 17.25 | 5,197 | 16.8 |
| 1889 | 1,440 | 18.42 | 1,186 | 15.17 | 1,101 | 14.07 | 1,308 | 16.73 | 5,035 | 16.1 |
| 1890 | 1,789 | 22.60 | l,3o9 | 17.16 | 1,282 | 16.20 | 1,722 | 20.20 | 6,152 | 19.4 |
| 1891 | 1,698 | 21.22 | 1,725 | 21.56 | 1,299 | 16.23 | 1,604 | 20.05 | 6,326 | 19.8 |
| 1892 | 2,193 | 27.12 | 1,260 | 15.57 | 1,231 | 15.22 | 1,391 | 17.20 | 6,075 | 18.8 |
| 1893 | 1,597 | 19.53 | 1,485 | 18.16 | 1,558 | 19.06 | 1,751 | 21.41 | 6,391 | 19.5 |
| 1894 | 1,613 | 19.52 | 1,284 | 15.54 | 1,131 | 1,235 | 14.94 | 5,263 | 15.9 | |
| 1895 | 1,936 | 23.18 | 1,210 | 14.48 | 1,292 | 15.47 | 1,322 | 15.83 | 5,760 | 17.2 |
| 1896 | 1,664 | 19.71 | 1,382 | 14.63 | 1,336 | 15.83 | 1,502 | 16.52 | 5,884 | 17.1 |
| 1897 | 1,421 | 1,081 | 1,335 | 15.64 | 1,558 | 18.26 | 5,395 | |||
| Corrected Mean | 1,800 | 22.54 | 1,418 | 17.74 | 1,400 | 16.21 | 1,555 | 17.98 | 6,173 | 17.90 |
| 1,744 | 20.21 | 1,246 | 14.44 | 1,439 | 16.68 | 1,276 | 5,705 | 16.53 | ||
Here it will be noticed that the healthiest first and second quarters
occurred in 1897, the healthiest third quarter in 1894, and the healthiest
fourth quarter in 1898. The healthiest year was 1897.