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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 1904

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

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1904

Table: Table XXVI.Showing theDeathsfrom the principalEpidemic Diseasesfor the Nineteen years1885-1903and in1904.

Table XXVI.

Showing theDeathsfrom the principalEpidemic Diseasesfor the Nineteen years1885-1903and in1904.

Years.Deaths.Death-rates.Years.DeathsDeath-rates.
18851,0993.6918961,0383.07
18867602.5218976381.89
18871,0363.3918989332.77
18887142.3118997812.32
18896042.0119006601.96
18907712.4419016281.87
18918992.8119026081.80
18927982.4719034711.39
18938842.70Corrected mean number of deaths—1885-19038172.39
18948082.4419046061 78
18956501.94Increase or Decrease-211-0.61

Table: Table XXVII.Showing theCorrected Mean NumberofDeathsfrom the principalEpidemic Diseases,1885-1903,and in1904.

Table XXVII.

Showing theCorrected Mean NumberofDeathsfrom the principalEpidemic Diseases,1885-1903,and in1904.

Diseases.Corrected Average, Number of Deaths 1885-1903.1904.Increase or Decrease.
Small Pox121-11
Measles192181-11
Scarlet Fever5035-15
Diphtheria13228-104
Whooping Cough18183-98
Typhus Fever1..-1
Enteric Fever4618-28
Continued & Ill-defined Fevers1..-1
Diarrhœa202260+58
The Above Diseases817606-211