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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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Table XXIX.
Death rates from the principal Zymotic Diseases, for the year 1898,
inclusive of the deaths of Parishioners in Hospitals outside the
District.
DISTRICTS.
Small Pox.
Measles.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Whooping
Cough.
Typhus Fever.
Enteric
(Typhoid Fever)
Diarrhcea.
TOTAL
DEATH.KATES
Uppor Holloway
..
0.89
0.08
0.18
0.42
..
0.09
0.73
2.40
Islington, South West
..
1.40
0.05
0.28
0.58
••
0.09
1.01
3 .41
Islington, South East
..
0.78
0.07
0.43
0.50
0.01
0.12
0.63
2.55
Highbury
••
0.43
0.12
0.19
0.42
..
0.13
0.83
2.13
Death.rates
••
0.94
0.07
0.26
0.49
0.00
0.11
0.82
2.69
* Including one Continued Fever.
DEATHS FROM THE ZYMOTIC DISEASES IN THE WARDS.
The several death.rates are arranged in the following statement
in order of least to greatest fatal incidence of disease.
Wards. Death.rates. Deaths.
East Highbury 1.64 48
Upper Holloway 1.86 70
St. Mary's 1.97 35
St. Peter's 2.34 78
Tufnell 2.36 79
Barnsbury 2.49 58
West Highbury 2.51 95
Canonbury 2.86 74
Tolliugton 3.10 96
Thornhill . 3.90 131
Lower Holloway 3.93 166