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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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X.
SUMMARY
of Vital Statistics, 1904.
Population
Males 162,149
Females 178,895
Estimated increase on population, 1903 1,907 persons.
Area 3,092 acres.
Density 110 persons per acre.
Marriages 2,948.
Persons married 5,896.
Persons married rate 17.29 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Births
Males 4,453
Females 4,437
Persons 8,890.
Birth rate 26.06 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Deaths from all causes
Males 2,654
Females 2,582
Persons 5,234,
Death rate „ ,, 15.35 per 1,000 inhabitants,
Deaths from principal Epidemic Diseases
Males 535
Females 71
606 persons.
Death rate ,, „ ,, 1.78 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Infantile Deaths under 1 year
Males 646
Females 494
Total 1,140.
Infantile mortality rate 128 per 1,000 births.
Excess of Births over Deaths 3,654.
Persons 341,044.