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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]
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Table: A statement of the Heaths during the Inst 13 years is set out below, and shows the enormous death toll which this disease demands annually:-

A statement of the Heaths during the Inst 13 years is set out below, and shows the enormous death toll which this disease demands annually:-

Years.DeathsPHTHISIS, Death rates per 1,000 InhabitentsProportion of Death from Phthisis per 100 Deaths from All Causes.Death rates from All Causes per 1,000 Inhabitants.
18945391.6310.2415.9
18955681709.8617.2
18965301.549.0117.1
18975201.549.6416.0
18985271.569.2416.9
18995831.739.2618.7
19006021.7910.5217.0
19015451.6210.1615.9
19025151.509.1416.4
19034921.4510.1614.2
19045331.5610.1815.3
19054381.288.8414.4
Corrected mean5461.589.6916.3
19064111.198.1414.6

Table: The deaths at each period of life were as follows:—

The deaths at each period of life were as follows:—

Age periods.Deaths.Deaths per 1,000 persons living at each age.Age periods.Deaths.Deaths per 1,000 persons living at each age.
0-5190.5155-65371.78
5-154o.o665-75121.13
15-25600.8775.8530.70
25-351041.66Total4111.19
35-45902.00
45-55822.56