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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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1898]
In the subsequent Tables (XXXI. and XXXII.) will be found the
causes of the variations of the death-rates in the several Wards.
Table XXXI. Shewing the Deaths from the Principal Zymotic Diseases in the several Wards during the Year 1898.
| wards. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Continued and Ill-defined Fevers. | Diarrhœa. | Total Zymotic Deaths. | Death-rates from Zymotic Diseases. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tufnell | .. | 30 | 5 | 6 | 11 | .. | 1 | .. | 26 | 79 | 2.36 |
| Upper Holloway | .. | 25 | 1 | 5 | 13 | .. | 3 | • • | 23 | 70 | 1.86 |
| Tollington | • • | 36 | 2 | 7 | 19 | .. | 6 | • • | 26 | 96 | 3.10 |
| Lower Holloway | • • | 79 | 1 | 9 | 27 | .. | 6 | • • | 44 | 166 | 3.93 |
| West Highbury | • • | 20 | 7 | 4 | 20 | • • | 3 | • • | 41 | 95 | 2.51 |
| East Highbury | • • | 9 | 1 | 9 | 8 | • • | 5 | 1 | 15 | 48 | 1.64 |
| Thornhill | • • | 49 | 4 | 16 | 20 | • • | 3 | • • | 39 | 131 | 3.90 |
| Barnsbury | .. | 19 | • • | 5 | 13 | • • | • • | .. | 21 | 58 | 2.49 |
| St. Mary's | • • | 11 | .. | 3 | 8 | .. | 2 | .. | 11 | 35 | 1.97 |
| Canonbury | .. | 26 | 3 | 20 | 10 | 2 | 2 | .. | 12 | 74 | 2.86 |
| St. Peter's | .. | 21 | 2 | 6 | 19 | .. | 5 | .. | 25 | 78 | 2.34 |
| Totals | .. | 325 | 26 | 90 | 168 | 1 | 36 | 1 | 283 | 930 | 2 .69 |