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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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1903

Table: Table LX.Showing the Deaths from Puerperal Fever per 1,000 Births in the Sub-Districts foreach Quarter and the Year 1903.

Table LX.

Showing the Deaths from Puerperal Fever per 1,000 Births in the Sub-Districts for

each Quarter and the Year 1903.

Sub-Districts.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Whole Year.
Tufnell518......1.35
Upper Holloway3.627.19....2.71
Tollington..........
Lower Holloway3.66....3.571.78
Highbury..2.75..2.661.37
Barnsbury..........
Islington, South East..1.80....0.49
The Borough1.321.76..0.901.00

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CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
This is a large group of diseases comprising within it such ailments as
Rheumatism, Rheumatic Fever, Rickets, Cancer, Tubercular Diseases such
as Phthisis, Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Meningitis, Scrofula, Purpura,
Anaemia and Diabetes. Altogether they caused 1,070 deaths as compared with
an average of 1,078 in the preceding ten years, while the death-rate was equal
to 3.15 per 1,000 as contrasted with a mean decennial rate of 3'22.

Table: These deaths were referred to the quarters as follows :—

These deaths were referred to the quarters as follows :—

1st Quarter2522.97 per 1,000
2nd „2843.35
3rd „2623.09
4th „272 3.21
Total1,0703.15