Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Forty-eighth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington
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Table XXI.
Classified Diseases. | Tufnell. | Upper Holloway. | Tollington. | Lower Holloway. | Highbury. | Barnsbury. | South-East. | The Borough. | ||||||||
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Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | |
Miasmatic | 36 | 1.10 | 32 | 0.92 | 39 | 1.12 | 68 | 1.64 | 65 | 0.99 | 93 | 68 | 0.89 | 401 | 1.18 | |
Diarrhœal | 8 | 0.24 | 11 | 0.31 | 17 | 19 | 0.47 | 10 | 0.15 | 17 | 0.31 | 27 | 0.35 | 109 | 0.32 | |
Constitutional | 97 | 2.95 | 116 | 3.33 | 99 | 2.85 | 134 | 3.23 | 180 | 2.76 | 189 | 255 | 3.36 | 1,070 | 3.15 | |
Developmental | 33 | 1.00 | 52 | 37 | 1.06 | 52 | 1.25 | 72 | 1.11 | 70 | 1.29 | 86 | 1.13 | 402 | 1.18 | |
Nervous | 31 | 0.94 | 48 | 25 | 0.72 | 38 | 0.91 | 63 | 0.96 | 54 | 0.99 | 89 | 1.17 | 348 | 1.02 | |
Circulation | 54 | 1.64 | 61 | 1.75 | 48 | 1.38 | 77 | 1.85 | 98 | 1.50 | 113 | 140 | 1.85 | 591 | 1.74 | |
Respiration | 69 | 2.10 | 82 | 2.35 | 83 | 2.39 | 108 | 2.60 | 125 | 1.92 | 178 | 229 | 3.02 | 874 | 2.58 | |
Digestive Organs | 39 | 37 | 1.06 | 27 | 0.77 | 31 | 0.74 | 56 | 0.86 | 51 | 0.94 | 67 | 0.88 | 308 | 0.91 | |
Urinary System | 17 | 0.51 | 19 | 0.54 | 15 | 0.43 | 24 | 28 | 0.43 | 24 | 0.44 | 25 | 0.33 | 152 | 0.45 | |
Violence | 14 | 0.42 | 23 | 0.66 | 15 | 0.43 | 16 | 0.38 | 23 | 0.35 | 47 | 52 | 0.68 | 190 | 0.56 | |
Ill-defined | 21 | 0.64 | 28 | 17 | 0.49 | 25 | 0.60 | 31 | 0.47 | 35 | 0.64 | 42 | 0.55 | 199 | 0.59 |
The heavy figures denote that these were the highest rates experienced in the several districts.