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DEATHS.
There were 5,635 deaths registered in 1902, of which 2,840 were males
and 2,795 females. These deaths were 341 below the corrected mean number
registered in the 17 years 1885 to 1901, and 217 below the corrected
mean of the ten years immediately preceding.
They were equal to a death-rate of 16.39 Per 1,000 inhabitants, or 1.33
per 1,000 less than the mean rate for 17 years, and 0.9 below the decennial
rate.
The return is very satisfactory, and all the more so because at the opening
of the year, that is to say, during the first quarter, the death-rate of the
borough was unusually high, namely 21.30 per 1,000 inhabitants. Fortunately,
however, it was followed in the three succeeding quarters by death-rates,
which were considerably below the rates of the corresponding quarters of the
preceding 17 years. (Vide Table XVII.)
The Borough Death-rate contrasted with that of other places.
—We have seen that the death-rate for the year contrasts favourably with
previous death-rates; let us now see how it compares with those of other
places. In the country generally, that is in all England and Wales, the
death-rate was 16.3 per 1,000, a rate almost identical with Islington's. In
the 76 Great Towns it was 17.4, in 103 Other Large Towns 15.3, and
in rural England 15.3. In the six great urban districts which are larger than
this borough, the death-rates were as follows:—In Bristol, 17.36, in
Birmingham, 18.62, in Liverpool, 22.47, in Manchester, 19.96, in Leeds,
17.55, and in Sheffield, 17.07 per 1000, which returns are higher than the
local returns.
In London the death-rate was 17.2 per 1,000, and in the six sanitary
areas which surround this borough the rates were as follows:—St. Pancras,
18.5, Stoke Nevvington, 13.3, Hackney, 14.9, Hornsey, 8.4, Finsbury, 22.8,
and Shoreditch, 20.7 per 1,000 of their population.
Notwithstanding the exceedingly low death-rates in Stoke Nevvington and
Hornsey, the death-rate of the Encircling Districts taken in the aggregate, was
above the Islington rate, namely 17.1 per 1,000, as compared with the borough
rate of 16.39. (Vide Table XX.)