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[1898
time. They were, however, tabulated for the geveral sub-districts, and
hence, I can now show their relative mortalities.
Sub-Districts.
Death rates per 100.000 inhabitants.
Persons to
an acre.
1895-6
1897-8
Upper Holloway 60 161 99
Highbury 63 76 83
South-east Islington 95 100 146
South-west „ 169 185 133
Total 102 140 111
"Here we perceive that Upper Holloway sub-registration district
(not ward) had the least mortality in the epidemic of 1895-6, whereas
now it stands third. Highbury, which then stood in the second place,
now stands first, while South-east Islington has risen from third place
to second. South-west Islington occupies the lowest place in each
epidemic. This changing of the incidence of the disease may most
probably be attributed to the fact that the preceding epidemic had to
an extent drawn on its stores so much that its pabulum was now soon
exhausted.
"This table is also of interest, because it shows that the present
epidemic was more severe than that which preceded it in each district.
Thus the rates per 100,000 inhabitants rose from 60 to 161 in Upper
Holloway, from 169 to 185 in South-west Islington, from 95 to 100 in
South-east Islington, and from 63 to 76 in Highbury. Now, although
the returns for the Wards did not point to a certain connection
between density and mortality, yet they certainly suggested it. In the
case of the sub-registration districts, the case is altered, for there the
district mortality, with one exception, bears a relationship to the
density. In a previous table I have shown that the mortality of
Islington West was 143, but when the Great Northern Railway cutting
and the North London Railway embankments, and the Cattle Market,
and the Grand Canal, are eliminated from it, it will be found to be the
densest district in Islington, as any one can easily judge for himself by
traversing the streets situated between Caledonian Road and York Road
on the east and west, and the Cattle Market and King's Cross on the