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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 1906
Fifty-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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1906]
SEPTIC DISEASES.
The best known of these diseases are Erysipelas, Pvæmia, Septicaemia,
and those grouped under the general term Puerperal Fever. Altogether they
caused 45 deaths.
Erysipelas.—The register returns 16 deaths, 7 being of males and
9 of females, as compared with a corrected average of 14 during the ten years
1896-05, and they were equal to a death-rate of 0.05 per 1,000 of the population.
It appears to have been fatal to 3 children under a year old, while of the
remaining number, 2 were between 1 and 5 years, and 11 were over five years.
Six of the deaths occurred in the local institutions.
Table LIX.
| Deaths. | Death Rates. | |
|---|---|---|
| Tufnell | 1 | 00.3 per 1,000 inhabitants. |
| Upper Holloway | 5 | 0.14,, ,, |
| Tollington | 1 | 0-03 ,, ,, |
| Lower Holloway | ... | |
| Highbury | 2 | 0.03 ,, ,, |
| Barnsbury | 2 | 0.04 ,, ,, |
| Islington, South-East | 5 | 0.07 ,, ,, |