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Islington 1904

Forty-ninth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington

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1904

Table: Table XXV.Showing theChief CausesofInfantile Mortalityin the year1904,and in the ten preceding years,1894-1903.

Table XXV.

Showing theChief CausesofInfantile Mortalityin the year1904,and in the ten preceding years,1894-1903.

Diseases.Years.+Increase or -Decrease on mean of 10 years.
1894.1895.1896.1897.1898.1899.1900.1901.19021903.Mean 10 years.1904.
Measles373767126527423724293851+13
Whooping Cough7234103586766683876636430-34
Diarrhoea731441251382202081481437283135200+65
Syphilis1411617127171011101211-1
Tabes Mesenterica455664554830252625203920-19
Phthisis272817151827271816162112-9
Tubercular Meningitis174628232930252420202610-16
Premature Births148151169174191187176169194174173178+5
Other Developmental Diseases483740393021364833493843+5
Erysipelas2352...6323433—
Inflammation of Brain191421272516192316182010-10
Convulsions716374604662576869476247-15
Bronchitis1211251411291291241191041169012078-42
Pneumonia88971298687112118123134109108101-7
Dentition232925212316252416182211-11
Enteritis40546265105159677043467120-51
Gastritis911108913212123221518+3
Suffocation564351394845433951354527-18
Debility7111268767681534065386836-32
Marasmus, Atrophy161195174180168204168148127145167141-26
All other Diseases87126111114108107871158510010493-11
Totals122914161490133815041548134412901219113613511140-211

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DEATHS FROM THE SEVEN PRINCIPAL EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
These include Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping
Cough, Fevers (Typhus, Enteric and Continued), and Diarrhoea.
These diseases caused 606 deaths, as compared with a corrected average of
817 in the preceding nineteen years, and they equalled a death-rate of
1.78 per 1,000 of the population, as against a mean rate for the years mentioned
of 2.39, or a decrease of over 25 per cent.
The 606 deaths represented 39 per cent. of the total mortality for the year.