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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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Indeed, the infectious eases, which numbered 2,418, were 1,000
less than the corrected average of the years 1891-7.
These cases represented a case-rate of 7.01 per 1,000 inhabitants, which, as the following return shows, is 2.89 below the mean rate.
| 1891 | 2,063 = | 6.4 per 1,000 inhabitants. |
| 1892 | 3,320 = | 10.3 „ ,, |
| 1893 | 4,853 = | 14.8 „ ,, |
| 1894 | 3,123 = | 9.4 ,, „ |
| 1895 | 2,840 = | 8.5 „ ,, |
| 1896 | 3,822 = | 11.3 „ ,, |
| 1897 | 2,903 = | 8.5 „ „ |
| Corrected mean | 3,418 = | 9.90 ,, ,, |
| 1898 | 2,418 = | 701 |
In London the case-rate was 8.3, and in the Encircling Districts
9.1 per 1,000 of the population.
The most gratifying feature of the return is that the reduction in
the number of cases was general to all the diseases, with the exception
of Enteric Fever, which showed the slight increase of 2. Thus, Small Pox
cases were less by 49, Scarlet Fever by 470, Diphtheria by 280,
Membranous Croup by 18, Erysipelas by 165, Puerperal Fever by
13, and Continued Fever by 5.
The increased return from Enteric Fever was due primarily to the
climatic conditions which prevailed, particularly towards the latter
part of the third quarter.
The cases and case-rates referred to the several sub-registration districts were as follows:—
| Upper Holloway | 800 = | 7.8 per 1,000 inhabitants. |
| South-west Islington | 651 = | 6.0 „ „ |
| South-east „ | 521 = | 7.7 „ „ |
| Highbury | 446 = | 6.6 „ „ |
| Total | 2,418 = | 7.0 „ „ |