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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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42
1905]
Epidemic
death-rate.
West Ham 2.98 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Bristol 1.50 „ „
Birmingham 1.90 „ „
Nottingham 2.27 ,, ,,
Liverpool 2.59 „ „
Manchester 2.5 „ „
Salford 2.57 „ „
Bradford 1.42 ,, „
Leeds 1.61 „ „
Sheffield 3.20 „ ,
Hull 2.37
Edinburgh 1.49 „ ,,
Glasgow 2.47 „ „
Dublin 1.41 „ „
Islington 1.54 „ „
The number of the deaths in, and the death-rate of, each sub-registration
district were as follows:—
Deaths.
Epidemic
Death-rate.
Tufnell
52
1.55
Upper Holloway
48
1.35
Tollington
62
1.74
Lower Holloway
64
1.54
Highbury
94
1.40
Barnsbury
101
1.87
Islington, South East
108
1.41
529
1.54
The higher death-rates in Lower Holloway and Barnsbury were due to
a heavier incidence of epidemic diarrhoea. (Vide Tables XXVIII. and XXIX.).