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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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Acute
Bronchitis Pneumonia Total
1st quarter 25 44 69
2nd „ 16 21 37
3rd „ 6 10 16
4th „ 34 28 62
81 103 184
ALCOHOLISM.
Under this head there were registered the deaths of 16 persons, of whom 5
were men and 11 women. This return is the smallest during five years and
9 less than in 1905, and 12 less than the average number which obtained
during the years 1901-5. The number of deaths during each year sinc£ 1901
have been as follows:—
Acute. Chronic. Total Males. Females.
1901 27 27 7 20
1902 9 29 38 20 18
1903 3 23 26 13 13
1904 4 18 22 12 10
1905 4 21 25 9 16
1906 3 13 16 5 11
Totals 154 66 88
On the basis of these figures it is apparent that Alcoholism has been
more fatal to women than to men, in the proportion of 57 of the former to
43 of the latter in every hundred deaths.