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[1904
death-rates were as follows:—Tufnell, 17.18 (571 deaths), Tollington, 13.51
(475 deaths), Lower Holloway, 16.66 (693 deaths), South-East Islington, 16.27
(1,236 deaths), and Upper Holloway, 14.85 per 1,000 (523 deaths).
Some of these death-rates are very low, especially that of Highbury, when
it is recollected that they represent the mortality of communities which are as
large as, or even larger than, many places which are tabulated by the
Registrar-General among the large towns of England and Wales.
The Borough Death rate contrasted with those 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 16.23 per 1,000, a rate almost identical with Islington's. In
the 76 Great Towns it was 17.24, in 142 Smaller Towns 15.6, 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, 15.62, in
Birmingham, 19.88, in Liverpool, 22.59, in Manchester, 21.27, in Leeds,
18.02, and in Sheffield, 16.79 Per 1,000, which returns are higher than the
local returns.
In the County of London the death-rate was 161 per 1,000, and in the
six boroughs which surround this borough the rates were as follows:—St.
Pancras, 17.4, Stoke Newington, 13.3, Hackney, 14.9, Hornsey, 8.4, Finsbury,
21.3, and Shoreditch, 20.4 per 1,000 of their population.
Notwithstanding the exceedingly low death-rates in Stoke Newington and
Hornsey, the death rate of the Encircling Boroughs taken in the aggregate, was
above the Islington rate, namely 16.4, per 1,000, as compared with the borough
rate of 15.35. (Vide Table LII.)
The Mortality in the Wards varied from 11.87 Per 1,000 (296
deaths), in Mildmay, and 11.88 (415 deaths) in Highbury, to 17.66 (579 deaths)
in St. Peter's, and 17.92 (599 deaths) in Thornhill. In the other wards the
death-rates were 17.18 (571 deaths) in Tufnell, 14.85 (523 deaths) in Upper
Holloway, 13.51 (475 deaths) in Tollington, 16.66 (693 deaths) in Lower
Holloway, 17.52 (364 deaths), in Barnsbury, 15.39 (267 deaths) in St. Mary's,
and 14.31 (454 deaths) in Canonbury. In the second quarter of the year,
Mildmay Ward exhibited the unusually low mortality-rate of 9.46 per 1,000,
and in the third quarter 10.42.
It is very satisfactory to note that in the two wards of Highbury and
Mildmay containing an aggregate population of 59,842, the death-rate was only
11.88 per 1,000.