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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
BIRTHS.

Table: The number of births registered in the year was 8,659, which were in the proportion of 25 . 10 per 1,000 persons living in the borough. These births were distributed to the several Sub-Districtsas follows:—

The number of births registered in the year was 8,659, which were in the proportion of 25 . 10 per 1,000 persons living in the borough. These births were distributed to the several Sub-Districtsas follows:—

Births.Birth-rates.
Tufnell74621.92
Upper Holloway1,06l29.46
Tollington74720.77
Lower Holloway1,11826.8l
Highbury1,34820.13
Barnsbury1,67931.10
South-east Islington1,96025.68
8,65925.10

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Illegitimate Births.— So far as can be ascertained from the returns
there were 244 illegitimate births, equal to a rate of 0.71 per 1,000 inhabitants,
as compared with 242 in 1903, 273 in 1904, and 227 in 1905. A table showing
the number of these births in each year, with three exceptions, since 1841 is
given below, from which it is seen that the average annual number in each
decennial period has been as follows:—
Births Births
per annum. per annum.
1841-50 64 1881-90 348
1851-60 134 1891-1900 272
1861-70 265 1901-1906 244
1871-80 343
From this statement we learn that during the last twenty-six years there
has been a steady decrease in the actual number of illegitimate births, notwithstanding
that there has been a large increase in the population ; and, moreover,
the figures are even better than they appear, when their relationship to
population is studied. Thus the average rate in each decennium was as
follows:—
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