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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]
MORTALITY FROM THE SEVERAL ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
SMALL POX.
No death was registered.
The deaths in the Parish during the preceding thirteen years were:—
| 1885 | 125 deaths. | 1893 | 2 deaths. | ||
| 1886 | 3 „ | 1894 | 3 „ | ||
| 1887 | - „ | 1895 | 1 „ | ||
| 1888 | - „ | 1896 | 1 „ | ||
| 1889 | - „ | 1897 | 1 „ | ||
| 1890 | - „ | Corrected average | 15 „ | ||
| 1891 | - „ | ||||
| 1892 | 3 „ | ||||
| 1893 | 0 death. | ||||
MEASLES.
Measles was unusually prevalent and fatal, for it caused 325 deaths
or 136 more than the average of the recorded deaths during the
preceding thirteen years. They were also 121 more than the average
of the same period after correction had been made for the largely
increased population.
The 325 deaths were equal to a death-rate of 0.94 per 1,000 of
the population, a rate which was more than a third of the death-rate
from the principal zymotic diseases taken collectively.
In one year only since 1885 were so many deaths registered
from Measles, namely in 1887 when 335 were entered.
The epidemic really commenced in the fourth quarter of 1897,
when 72 deaths occurred. These were followed by 183 deaths in the
first quarter of 1898, by 107 in the second and by 23 and 12 in the
third and fourth quarters respectively.
The history of the epidemic was given in the return for the
second quarter of the year, and it is now reprinted here.