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1905]
SCARLET FEVER.
Scarlet Fever, whose records once upon a time showed hundreds of deaths
annually, is not now nearly so fatal, and in the year under observation only
37 deaths were registered from it, or only two more than in the preceding
year, a return which is 12 below the corrected average of the preceding
20 years.
In the report for 1904 a table was given showing the number of deaths
that have occurred in Islington in the several quinquennial periods since 1856,
and is well worthy of reference as showing the enormous decrease which has
occurred in the mortality from it.
This decrease has been specially noticeable since 1890, from which time
to the present the deaths have never exceeded 94 in any one year. Indeed,
compared with the mortality in the quinquennium, 1891-1895, the return has
fallen 50 per cent., for whereas the average annual number of deaths in those
years was 66, in the last similar period it was only 33.
Smallest No. of Year in which
Quinquennial Total No. of Average No. deaths in the lowest
Period. Deaths. of Deaths. any one No. was
year. recorded.
1856-60 ... 594 ... 120 ... 51 ... 1857
1861-65 ••• 1,072 ... 214 ... 144 ... 1865
1866-70 ... 1,198 ... 240 ... 116 ... 1866
1871-75 ... 585 ... 117 ... 43- ... 1873
1876-80 ... 831 ... 166 ... 125 ... 1876
1881-85 ... 439 ... 88 ... 29 ... 1885
1886-90 .. 254 ... 51 ... 26 ... 1886
1891-95 ... 332 ... 66 ... 50 ... 1891
1896-1900 ... 201 ... 40 ... 24 ... 1900
1901-05 ... 166 ... 33 ... 24 ... 1903
During the last seven years the diminution has been most marked ; it is
plainly shown by the following figures :—
1890 ... 65 deaths 1898 ... 26 deaths
1891 ... 50 „ 1899 ... 33
1892 ... 53 „ 1900 ... 24
1893 ... 94 „ 1901 ... 30
1894 ... 69 „ 1902 ... 40 „
1895 ... 66 „ 1903 ... 24
1896 ... 57 „ 1904 ... 35
1897 ... 61 „ 1905 ... 37 „