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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 1902
Forty-seventh annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington
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[1902
Birth-rates of Islington.
| Year. | Year. | Year. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1841 | 25.58 | 1851 | 31.46 | 1861 | 35.31 |
| 1842 | 25.28 | 1852 | 34.19 | 1862 | 34.76 |
| 1843 | 25.86 | 1853 | 34.81 | 1863 | 36.51 |
| 1844 | 27.18 | 1854 | 35.50 | 1864 | 36.84 |
| 1845 | 26.20 | 1855 | 35.37 | 1865 | 37.90 |
| 1846 | 29.13 | 1856 | 34.97 | 1866 | 38.02 |
| 1847 | 29.75 | 1857 | 34.89 | 1867 | 38.97 |
| 1848 | 30.76 | 1858 | 33.57 | 1868 | 38.86 |
| 1849 | 30.13 | 1859 | 35.13 | 1869 | 37.24 |
| 1850 | 32.96 | 1860 | 34.84 | 1870 | 36.77 |
| Mean | 28.65 | Mean | 34.54 | Mean | 37.20 |
| 1871 | 35.63 | 1881 | 34.87 | 1891 | 30.68 |
| 1872 | 36.36 | 1882 | 34.79 | 1892 | 29.68 |
| 1873 | 36.89 | 1883 | 34.19 | 1893 | 29.83 |
| 1874 | 37.16 | 1884 | 33.54 | 1894 | 28.91 |
| 1875 | 37.67 | 1885 | 32.45 | 1895 | 29.81 |
| 1876 | 37.26 | 1886 | 32.66 | 1896 | 28.87 |
| 1877 | 36.85 | 1887 | 31.92 | 1897 | 29.33 |
| 1878 | 36.28 | 1888 | 31.10 | 1898 | 28.07 |
| 1879 | 36.08 | 1889 | 30.79 | 1899 | 28.71 |
| 1880 | 35.86 | 1890 | 29.16 | 1900 | 27.55 |
| Mean | 36.60 | Mean | 32.56 | Mean | 29.11 |
| 1901 | 27.62 | 1902 | 26.80 | ||
The continued decline in the birth-rate was commented on in the Annual
Report for last year, and, therefore, there is little to add on this subject now.
This decline is not a matter peculiar to Islington or to England, but is
common to nearly all civilized countries, even to so young a country as the
United States of America, where President Roosevelt recently made some very
strong comments on the subject. In an official report to the Brighton
Corporation the Medical Officer of Health made some remarks which are,
perhaps, worthy of being printed here, especially as they coincide with the
views expressed by your own officer.
" Rate of natural increase of population is based on the balance between
births and deaths. The effect of the declining birth-rate is therefore to some
extent concealed by the still greater decline in the death-rate which has been
secured. The latter cannot, howerer, continue to compensate for the lowered