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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]
84

Table: The deaths in the Sub-Registration Districts were:—

The deaths in the Sub-Registration Districts were:—

Upper Holloway138 deaths =1.35 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Islington, South-west190 „ =1.76 „ „
„ South-east113 „ =1.67 „ „
Highbury86 „ =1.28 „ „
Total527 „ =1.53 ,, ,,

Table: The following Table shows the distribution of the disease in the sub-districts and in the several quarters of the year:— Table LXI.

The following Table shows the distribution of the disease in the sub-districts and in the several quarters of the year:— Table LXI.

Quarters.Upper Holloway.Islington South-west.Islington South-east.Highbury.The Parish.
1st32523118133
2nd28462727128
3rd32432217114
4th46493324152
The Year13819011386527
42 children under five years of age died from this disease.

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INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The deaths among infant children, that is to say, children under
twelve months old, were more numerous than usual.
They numbered 1,504 and were in the proportion of 159 to every
1,000 infants born during the year. This infantile mortality rate is,
with two exceptions, the highest known in the fifteen years 1883-97.
Nevertheless, when an inquiry is made as to what has occurred in other
places during the same period, the return appears much more favourable
than it does at first sight.