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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
It may be remarked here that although undoubtedly many attacks from
this disease were due in London and other places to the eating of oysters,
cockles and other shell fish, yet so far as enquiry could elicit the information,
only three cases could be attributed to these causes in Islington.

Table: Table XLIV.Showing theDeathsfromEnteric Feverin the Sub-Districts foreach Quarter.

Table XLIV.

Showing theDeathsfromEnteric Feverin the Sub-Districts foreach Quarter.

Sub-Districts.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Whole Year
Tufnell1....56
Upper Holloway112..4
Tollington....224
Lower Holloway11125
Highbury2..349
Barnsbury21339
Islington, South East21238
The Borough94131945

Table: Table XLV.Showing theDeath-ratesfromEnteric Feverof the Sub-Districtsfor each Quarter.

Table XLV.

Showing theDeath-ratesfromEnteric Feverof the Sub-Districtsfor each Quarter.

Sub-Districts.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Whole Year
Tufnell0.12....0.570.18
Upper Holloway0.120.120.23..0.11
Tollington....0.230.220.12
Lower Holloway0.100.090.090.180.12
Highbury0.12..0.190.230.4
Barnsbury0.150.070.220.210.16
Islington, South East0.100.050.110.150.10
The Borough0.100.050.150.210.13

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