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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 1903

Forty-eighth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington

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Table: Table XXVI.Showing theDeathsfrom the principalZymotic Diseasesfor the Eighteen years1885 1902and in1903.

Table XXVI.

Showing theDeathsfrom the principalZymotic Diseasesfor the Eighteen years1885 1902and in1903.

Years.Deaths.Death-rates.Years.DeathsDeath-rates.
18851,0993.6918961,0383.07
18867602.5218976381.89
18871,0363.3918989332.77
18887142.3118997812.32
18896042.0119006601.96
18907712.4419016281.87
18918992.8119026081.77
18927982.47Corrected mean number of deaths—1885-19028312.45
18938842.70
18948082.4419034711.39
18956501.94

Table: Table XXVII.Showing theCorrected Mean NumberofDeathsfrom the principalZymotic Diseases, 1885-1902,and in1903.

Table XXVII.

Showing theCorrected Mean NumberofDeathsfrom the principalZymotic Diseases, 1885-1902,and in1903.

ses.Corrected Average, Number of Deaths 1885-1902.1903.Increase or Decrease.
Small Pox11..– 11
Measles196120– 76
Scarlet Fever5224– 28
Diphtheria13643– 93
Whooping Cough181152– 29
Typhus Fever1..– 1
Enteric Fever4822– 26
Continued & Ill-defined Fevers11..
Diarrhœa205109– 96
The Above Diseases831471–360