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Islington 1898

Forty-third annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington

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87
[1898
The infantile mortality rates in the several sub-districts were
Deaths.
Upper Holloway 148 per 1,000 births.
Islington South West 177 ,, ,,
„ South East 163 „ „
Highbury 136 ,, ,,
The Parish 159 „ ,,

Table: Table LXII. Showing the chief causes of Infantile Mortality in the year 1898, and in the five preceding years 1893—97.

Table LXII. Showing the chief causes of Infantile Mortality in the year 1898, and in the five preceding years 1893—97.

Diseases.Years.+Increase or -Decrease onmeanof 5years.
1893.1894.1895.1896.1897.Mean of 5years1898.
Measles28373767123665+ 29
Whooping Cough707234103586767..
Diarrhœa18973144125138134220+ 86
Syphilis2114116171412- 2
Tabes Mesenterica83455664556148- 13
Phthisis28272817152318- 5
Tubercular Meningitis..21174628232729- 2
Premature Births173148151169174163191+ 28
Other Developmental Diseases48483740394230- 12
Erysipelas423523..- 3
Inflammation of Brain32191421272325+ 2
Convulsions75716374606946- 23
Bronchitis138121125141129131129- 2
Pneumonia748897129869587- 8
Dentition19232925212323..
Enteritis454054626553105+ 52
Gastritis491110889+ 1
Suffocation56564351394948- 1
Debility1027111268768676- 10
Marasmus176111141114131134129- 5
Inanition89505460496039- 21
All other Diseases12087126111114112108- 4
Totals1595122914161490133814131504+ 91

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THE NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The notifications were highly satisfactory as they were, with the
exception of the year when the system was first adopted, the lowest on
record.