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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 1905
Fiftieth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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1905] 16
Illegitimate Births.—The births registered as born out of wedlock
numbered 227, which is the smallest number registered in the borough since
1863. They were in the proportion of 0.66 per 1,000 of the population.
The following statement gives the birth-rate for the country as well as for
some of the most populous places :—
England and Wales 27.2 per thousand living.
76 Great Towns 28.2 „
„ „ less London 27.2 „
141 Smaller Towns 26.9 „
London 27.1 „
Birmingham 29.3 ,,
Liverpool 33.3
Manchester 29.5 ,,
Leeds 27.1 „
Sheffield 29.8 ,,
Bristol 27.0 ,,
St. Pancras 24.7 ,,
Stoke Newington 20.5 ,,
Hackney 25.8 ,,
Hornsey 18.5 „
Finsbury 34.7
Shoreditch 33.5
The Encircling Districts 26.5 ,,
Islington 25.5 „
The total Births and Birth-rates in the seven Sub-districts were as
follows:—
Births. Birth-rates.
Tufnell 758 22.54
Upper Holloway 1,067 29.96
Tollington 809 22.75
Lower Holloway 1,118 26.85
Highbury 1,303 19.64
Barnsbury 1,706 31.53
South East Islington 1,995 26.20
The Borough 8,756 25.52