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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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47 [1898
Zymotic
Death-rate.
West Ham 2.68 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Bristol 2.69 „ „
Birmingham 2.78 „ „
Nottingham 2.37 „ „
Liverpool 3.21 „ „
Manchester 3.11 „ „
Salford 4.03 „ „
Bradford 2.12 „ „
Leeds 3.12 „
Sheffield 3.81 ., „
Hull . 2.99 „ „
Edinburgh 2.33 „
Glasgow 3.58 „ „
Dublin 2.45 „ „
Islington 2.69 „
In the succeeding table it will be seen that Measles and Diarrhoea
were considerably in excess of the corrected mean number of deaths
registered in the preceding thirteen years, the former disease causing
121 deaths more than the average, and the latter 73.
Table XXVII.
Showing the Corrected Mean Number of Deaths from the
principal Zymotic Diseases, 1885-97. together with the deaths
registered in 1898.
Diseases.
Corrected Mean
Number of Deaths
1885-97.
1898.
Increase or
Decrease.
Small Pox
15
-
— 16
Measles
204
325
+ 121
Scarlet Fever
61
28
— 35
Diphtheria
139
90
— 49
Whooping Cough
201
168
— 33
Typhus Fever
1
1
—
Enteric
41
f 6
— 13
Continued and Ill-defined Fevers
1
1
—
Diarrhoea
210
283
+ 73
The Above Diseases
881
930
+ 49