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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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41 [1902

Table: Table XXIV.Showing theCorrected Mean NumberofDeathsfrom the principalZymotic Diseases, 1885-1901, together with the deaths registered in 1902.

Table XXIV.

Showing theCorrected Mean NumberofDeathsfrom the principalZymotic Diseases, 1885-1901, together with the deaths registered in 1902.

Diseases.Corrected Average, Number of Deaths 1885-1901.1902Increase or Decrease.
Small Pox1353+40
Measles206114—92
Scarlet Fever5540—15
Diphtheria144104—40
Whooping Cough192152—40
Typhus Fever1..—1
Enteric Fever5145-0
Continued & Ill-defined Fevers11..
Diarrhæa21799—118
The Above Diseases880608—272

Table: Table XXV.Deathsfrom the principalZymotic Diseasesduring the year 1902, inclusive of the deaths of Residents in Hospitals outside the Borough.

Table XXV.

Deathsfrom the principalZymotic Diseasesduring the year 1902, inclusive of the deaths of Residents in Hospitals outside the Borough.

sub-registration districts.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Typhus Fever.Enteric (Typhoid Fever)Diarrhoea.totals.
Tufnell2851711...*7858
Upper Holloway694816...41259
Tollington52051013...4865
Lower Holloway101931823...5684
Highbury31452028...91998
Barnsbury729111436...923129
S. East Islington201571725...823115
The Borough5311440104152...*4699608
Corresponding year, 190181513013485...48172628

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* Including 1 Continued Fever.