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Islington 1905

Fiftieth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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[1905

Table: Table XXV.Showing theChief CausesofInfantile Mortalityin the year1905,and in the ten preceding years,1895-1904.

Table XXV.

Showing theChief CausesofInfantile Mortalityin the year1905,and in the ten preceding years,1895-1904.

Diseases.Years.+Increase or -Decrease on mean of 10 years.
1895.1896.1897.1898.1899.1900.1901.19021903.1904.Mean 10 years.1905.
Measles376712652742372429513927— 12
Whooping Cough3410358676668387663306051- 9
Diarrhoea1441251382202081481437283200140149+ 1
Syphilis1161712717101110111113+ 2
Tabes Mesenterica566455483025262520203724- J3
Phthisis2817151827271816161219a- H
Tubercular Meningitis462823293025242020102619- 7
Premature Births .151169174I91187176169194J74178176163- 13
Other Develop-mental
Diseases374039302136483349433848+ 10
Erysipelas3526323433l— 2
Inflammation of Brain14212725161923161810J919—
Convulsions637460466257686947475938— 21
Bronchitis125141129I29124119104116907811677- 39
Pneumonia971298687112118123134109101110107- 3
Dentition29252123l62524161811219— 12
Enteritis54626510515967704346206953— 16
Gastritis111089!321212322181615— I
Suffocation435139484543395135274223- 19
Debility1126876768153406538366431- 33
Marasmus, Atrophy195174180168204168148127145141165107- 58
All other Diseases12611111410810787115851009310595— IO
Totals14161490133815041548I344129012191136114013431074— 269

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DEATHS FROM THE SEVEN PRINCIPAL EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
These are Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping
Cough, Fevers (Typhus, Enteric and, Continued), and Diarrhoea.
The return of 529 deaths from these diseases is with one exception the
smallest hitherto recorded and is 280 below the corrected average number
of deaths for the 20 years preceding. They were in the proportion of 1.54 to
every 1,000 persons living in the borough, as against a mean death rate of 2.36