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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

Table: Table LXVI,Showing the Deaths from Phthisis in the Sub Districts during the Four Quarters of the Year 1906

Table LXVI,

Showing the Deaths from Phthisis in the Sub Districts during the Four Quarters of the Year 1906

Quarters,TuffnellUpper HollowayTollington.Lower HollowayHighbury.Baresbury.South East.Borough.
1st481118122836117
2nd41671414101993
3rd10751119202092
4th711816192127109
The Year254231596488102411

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Tabes Mesenterica.—This disease, which is commonly known as Consumption
of the Bowels, caused 35 deaths, of which 17 were among children
who had not reached the age of 1 year, 14 among those who were between 12
months and 5 years of age, and 4 among those who were over this age. It
is one of early life and is without doubt amenable to preventive measures,
the carrying out of which, however, mainly devolves on the mothers of the
children. 24 deaths were those of males and 12 of females.
Tubercular Meningitis or Hydrocephalus was noted as the cause
of 80 deaths, of which 36 were those of males and 44 of females. With 23
exceptions all were among children under 5 years of age.
Tuberculosis of the Larynx caused 3 deaths, one of which was that
of an infant, and the other 2 of persons over 5 years of age.
General Tuberculosis was registered as having caused 32 deaths, of
which 7 were under 1 year old, 13 between 1 and 5, and 12 above this age.