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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 LXIII.Showing the Deaths from Phthisis in the Sub-Districts during the Four Quarters of the Year 1903.

Table LXIII.

Showing the Deaths from Phthisis in the Sub-Districts during the Four Quarters of the Year 1903.

Quarters.Tufnell.Upper Holloway.Tollington.Lower Holloway.Highbury.Barnsbury.South-East.Borough.
1st8111315151531108
2nd1212923242028128
3rd16171216131726117
4th1118918183332139
The Year475843727085117492

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Tabes Mesenterica or Tuberculosis of the Abdomen.—This form
of Tuberculosis was responsible for 40 deaths, mainly among children under
five years old, of whom 35 died. These deaths were equal to a rate of 0.12
per 1,000 of the population at all ages, while the death-rate among children,
who had not passed their fifth year, was 0.96 (nearly ro) per 1,000.
Tuberculosis of the Brain or Tubercular Meningitis was credited
with 71 deaths, the greater number of which, namely 56, occurred among
children under five years old, the death-rate among them being 1.54 per 1,000.
Tuberculosis of the Larynx, which is very fatal to those whom it
attacks, was fortunately only responsible for 7 deaths.
General Tuberculosis was given as the cause of 19 deaths, 11 of which
occurred among children under five years, and 8 among persons above that
age.
Other forms of Tuberculosis, which include Lupus and Caries, were
responsible for 3 deaths.