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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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Table: Table LX.Showing theDeathsfromPuerperal Feverper1,000Births in the Sub Districts foreach Quarter and the Year1904.

Table LX.

Showing theDeathsfromPuerperal Feverper1,000Births in the Sub Districts foreach Quarter and the Year1904.

Sub-Districts.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Whole Year.
Tufnell......6.101.25
Upper Holloway3.46....3.821.88
Tollington4.57......1.23
Lower Holloway..........
Highbury3.05......0.70
Barnsbury4.73....4.812.39
Islington, South East1.933764.05..2.50
The Borough2.640.870.971.881.57

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CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
This group, which includes, among many others, such diseases as
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism, Gout, Rickets, Cancer, Phthisis and the
allied tubercular diseases, Purpura, Anaemia, and Diabetes caused 1,116 deaths,
which were 40 above the uncorrected average for the preceding seven years.
The total deaths numbered 1,116 as against an average of 1,076 in the
preceding ten years, and the resulting death-rate was 3.27 per 1,000 inhabitants.

Table: These deaths were referred to the several periods of the year as follows :—

These deaths were referred to the several periods of the year as follows :—

1st Quarter-294= 3.45 per 1,000
2nd „-264= 3.10 „
3rd ,,-260= 3.05 „
4th ,,-298= 3.50 „
Total1,116= 3.27 „

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Cancer or Malignant Disease.—To Cancer were ascribed 323 deaths,
a return, which, although 27 less than that of the preceding year, is neverthe-