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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 1900
Forty-fifth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington
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[1900
SEPTIC DISEASES.
Erysipelas.
To this septic disease 17 deaths were ascribed, or 1 more than the uncorrected
average for nine years.
In the sub-districts in which the deaths occurred the numbers were:—
| Deaths. | Death rates | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Holloway | 2 = | 0.02 per 1,000 inhabitants. | |||
| Lower Holloway | 3 = | 007 „ „ | |||
| Highbury | 2 = | 0.03 „ „ | |||
| Barnsbury | 5 = | 0.08 „ „ | |||
| Islington, South-East | 5 = | 0.06 „ „ | |||
During the preceding nine years the deaths have been:—
| Deaths. | Death rates. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 9 | 0.03 per 1,000 inhabitants. | |||
| 1892 | 20 | 0.06 ,, ,, | |||
| 1893 | 34 | 0.10„ „ | |||
| 1894 | 0.04 „ „ | ||||
| 1895 | 16 | 0.05 „ „ | |||
| 1896 | 16 | 0.05 „ „ | |||
| 1897 | 11 | 0.03 ,, ,, | |||
| 1898 | 8 | 0.02 ,, ,, | |||
| 1899 | 16 | 0.04 „ „ | |||
| Average | 16 | 0.05 „ „ | |||
Puerperal Fever.
It is, indeed, a pleasing fact to be able to record that the mortality iron
this disease was 50 per cent. below the average of the nine years preceding. Only
6 deaths were reported, as against an average of 12.
The return is also the lowest that has been known in these years.
The deaths and their proportion to the births were from 1891-1899 as
follows:—
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