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credited with an almost identical death-rate, 15.46, and lastly, Barnsbury was
responsible for 897 deaths, with a death-rate of 16.58. Thus it is seen that the
death-rate of each district was exceedingly good, even that of Barnsbury,
especially when the nature of the district is taken into consideration.
Now the least healthy of these sub-districts showed a less mortality rate
than that of several of the London Boroughs. For instance, in Holborn it
was 17.5, in Finsbury 19.0, in the City of London 17.4, in Shoreditch, 19.7,
in Bethnal Green 18.6, in Stepney, 17.7, in Poplar 17.6, in Southwark
18.5, and in Bermondsey 18.7, which returns accentuate the general healthy
condition of Islington.
Mortality in the Wards.—An examination of the several death-rates
of the wards shows that they range from 12.52 in Mildmay, where 313 deaths
occurred, to 16.67 in Barnsbury, where 344 deaths were registered. Here, too,
the same fact is apparent that no ward was unhealthy, as even the highest
death-rate, 16.67 per 1,000, must be considered a very favourable rate in a
population where for the most part the people live in tenements or in houses let
in lodgings, which are occupied by several families.
The several deaths and death-rates are set out in Table XVIII., where they
can be studied. It may, however, be stated that in the first quarter of the
year the death-rate in Canonbury Ward was only 12.64, in the second quarter
the death-rate of Tollington only reached 10.46, while in the third quarter the
death-rate in Mildmay was as low as 9.60, and in the fourth quarter the deathrate
of St. Mary was only 13.80.
SEASONAL MORTALITY.
In the first quarter the deaths, which numbered 1,316, were 342 less than
the corrected average of the preceding ten years, and were in the proportion
of 15.35 to every 1,000 of the population. This rate was the lowest hitherto
recorded at this period of the year, and was 3.98 less than the preceding
.decennial average.
In the second quarter there were 1,178 deaths registered, or 83 less than
the corrected average of the preceding ten years, while the mortality was at
the annual rate of 13.73 per 1,000 of the population, and was with two
exceptions, the lowest hitherto recorded at this period, which is usually
very healthy, the mean rate for the previous ten years having been only 14.7.