Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Forty-ninth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington
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Year. | Births. | Birth-rates. | Deaths. | Death-rates. | Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age. | Deaths under 1 year to 1 000 Births. | Deaths from the Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Total Zymotic Death rates | Influenza. | Cancer | Phthisis. | Puerperal Fever | |||||||||||||
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Totals. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and undefined Fevers. | Diarrhœal Diseases. | Deaths. | Death-rates | Deaths. | Death-rates | Deaths. | Death rates. | Deaths | Deaths in 1,000 births | ||||||||
1894 | 9,502 | 28.7 | 5,263 | 15.9 | 1,229 | 129 | 808 | 3 | 199 | 69 | 218 | 188 | .. | 36 | .. | 95 | 2.44 | 51 | 0.15 | 239 | 0.72 | 539 | 1.63 | 8 | 0.84 |
1895 | 9.879 | 29.6 | 5,760 | 17.2 | 1,416 | 143 | 650 | 1 | 135 | 66 | 144 | 81 | 1 | 30 | 3 | 189 | 1.94 | 179 | 0.53 | 266 | 0.79 | 566 | 1.70 | 12 | 1.21 |
1896 | 9,921 | 28.8 | 5,884 | 17.1 | 1,490 | 150 | 1038 | 1 | 285 | 57 | 257 | 234 | .. | 46 | 2 | 153 | 3.07 | 33 | 0.09 | 291 | 0.85 | 530 | 1.54 | 11 | 1.11 |
1897 | 9.842 | 29.2 | 5,395 | 16.0 | 1,338 | 136 | 638 | 1 | 97 | 61 | 131 | 130 | .. | 44 | .. | 174 | 1.89 | 47 | 0.14 | 304 | 0.90 | 520 | 1.54 | 10 | 1.01 |
1898 | 9.453 | 28.1 | 5,705 | 16.9 | 1,504 | 159 | 933 | .. | 325 | 26 | 93 | 168 | 1 | 36 | 1 | 283 | 2.77 | 65 | 0.19 | 283 | 0.84 | 527 | 1.56 | 7 | 0.74 |
1899 | 9,658 | 28.7 | 6,293 | 18.7 | 1,548 | 160 | 781 | .. | 155 | 33 | 128 | 160 | .. | 47 | .. | 258 | 2.32 | 126 | 0.37 | 270 | 0.80 | 583 | 1.73 | 14 | 1.45 |
1900 | 9.254 | 27.5 | 5,721 | 17.0 | 1,344 | 145 | 660 | 1 | 159 | 24 | 106 | 142 | .. | 46 | 2 | 180 | 1.96 | 49 | 0.44 | 303 | 0.90 | 602 | 1.79 | 6 | 0.65 |
1901 | 9,264 | 27.6 | 5,361 | 15.9 | 1,290 | 139 | 628 | 8 | 151 | 30 | 134 | 85 | .. | 47 | 1 | 172 | 1.87 | 46 | 0.14 | 289 | 0.86 | 545 | 1.62 | 15 | 1.62 |
1902 | 9.214 | 26.8 | 5,635 | 16.4 | 1,219 | 132 | 608 | 53 | 114 | 40 | 104 | 152 | .. | 45 | 1 | 99 | 1.80 | 83 | 0.24 | 336 | 0.95 | 515 | 1.50 | 12 | 1.30 |
1903 | 8,983 | 26 5 | 4,839 | 14.2 | 1,136 | 126 | 471 | .. | 120 | 24 | 43 | 152 | .. | 22 | 1 | 109 | 1.39 | 40 | 0.12 | 350 | 1.03 | 492 | 1.45 | 9 | 1.00 |
Corrected average. | 9,639 | 28.3 | 5,670 | 16.6 | 1.371 | 142 | 732 | 7 | 177 | 44 | 138 | 151 | .. | 41 | 1 | 173 | 2.15 | 83 | 0.24 | 296 | 0.87 | 550 | 1.61 | 10 | 1.04 |
Departure from average. | -749 | -23 | -434 | -1.3 | -231 | -14 | -126 | -6 | +4 | -9 | -110 | -68 | .. | -23 | -1 | + 87 | -0.37 | -35 | -0.10 | +27 | —0.08 | — 17 | —0.05 | +4 | +0.53 |