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1903]
INFLUENZA.
To this cause were referred 40 deaths, which is a decrease of 51 on the
average, corrected for the increase of population, during the preceding ten years.
They are also below any return made during these years. These deaths represent
a death-rate of 0.11 per 1,000 of the population. As many as 30 out of the total
number of deaths from Influenza occurred in the first quarter, while only 3, 1,
and 6 were respectively entered in the three remaining quarters. The early part
of the year has invariably been the period when this disease has been most fatal,
although occasionally, as in 1893 and 1897, the greatest number of deaths have
occurred in the fourth quarter.
It was not until 1890, after a lapse of very many years, that Influenza, so
well known on the continent as La Grippe, became epidemic here. Indeed, from
1856 to 1889 only 40 deaths altogether were registered in Islington, since which
time, fourteen years, 1,307 deaths have occurred.
Of the 40 deaths during the year, 22 were males and 18 females; 4 were
referred to Tufnell, 4 to Upper Holloway, 2 to Tollington, 2 to Lower Holloway,
6 to Highbury, 5 to Barnsbury, and 11 to Islington South East sub-registration
districts.