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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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Table: Table LX.Showing theDeathsfromPuerperal Feverper1,000Births in the Sub-Districts foreach Quarter and the Year1905.

Table LX.

Showing theDeathsfromPuerperal Feverper1,000Births in the Sub-Districts foreach Quarter and the Year1905.

Sub-Districts.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Whole Year.
Tufnell..........
Upper Holloway..........
Tollington..........
Lower Holloway..3 56..6-802-68
Highbury289....077
Barnsbury2-27....0 58
Islington, South East....1-960-50
The Borough0-890-44..1-400 68

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CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
This classification includes, among many others, such diseases as Rheumatic
Fever, Rheumatism, Rickets, Cancer, Consumption of the Bowels,
Tubercular Meningitis, Phthisis, Purpura, Anaemia and Diabetes, and was the
ascribed cause of 1,007 deaths, as compared with an average mortality of 1,089
in the preceding 10 years, so that there was a decrease of 82 on the average
of the previous returns. It is gratifying to note that this is the lowest figure
hitherto obtained.
The mortality was in proportion of 2.94 to every 1,000 of the inhabitants.

Table: It is also 43 above the corrected average of the preceding 14 years, which may be seen from the following return :—

It is also 43 above the corrected average of the preceding 14 years, which may be seen from the following return :—

YearsDeathsDeaths per Pop.YearsDeaths.Deaths per 10,000 Pop.
18912186.819OO3039.0
18922196.819O12898.6
18932387.319023269.5
18942397.2190335010.3
18952667.919043239.5
18962918.5Corrected Average285831
18973049.0
18982838.4
18992708.o1905328956