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1903
The Encircling Boroughs (St. Pancras, Stoke Newington, Hackney
Hornsey, Finsbury and Shoreditch) exhibited a mean attack-rate of 6.30 per
1,000, or 1.27 in excess of the local rate. Hornsey and Stoke Newington alone
of these communities showed a lower rate than that of Islington, while the
attack-rates in St. Pancras (6.48), Hackney (8.00), Finsbury (5.89), and
Shoreditch (5.68), were not so good as it.
The Sub-registration Districts.—The incidence of these diseases
varied from 4.15 per 1,000 of the population in Islington South East to
7.03 per 1,000 in Lower Holloway. The return for each sub-district was as
follows:—
Tufnell
Upper Holloway
Tollington
Lower Holloway
Highbury
Barnsbury
Islington South East -
Cases.
158 =
169 =
197 =
292 =
330 =
246 =
315 =
Attack-rates.
4.81 per 1,000 inhabitants.
4.85 ,, ,,
5.66 ,, ,,
7.03 ,, ,,
5.07 ,, ,,
4.53 ,, ,,
4.15 ,, ,,
Wards—Of the above-mentioned sub-registration districts the four firstmentioned
are also separate wards, the remaining three are, however, split up
into seven wards, the particulars for each of which appear in the following
statement:—
Highbury
Mildmay
Thornhill
Barnsbury
St. Mary's
Canonbury
St. Peter's
Cases.
200 =
111 =
169 =
77 =
65 =
118 =
151 =
Attack-rates.
5.74 per 1,000 inhabitants.
4.46 ,, ,,
5.06 ,, ,,
3.68 „ „
3.76 ,, ,,
3.78 ,, ,,
4.61 ,, ,,
In the Quarters. -In the first quarter 437 cases were notified and the
attack-rate was 5.15, in the second 402, equal to an attack-rate of 474, in the
third 472 or an attack rate of 5.56, and in the fourth 396 representing an attackrate
of 4.67.