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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]
The actual changes at each period of life produced by the alteration of the age incidence of the population is seen in the following table:—
| Males. | Females. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age. | Death-rate in 1906. | Deaths in 1906. | Deaths that would have occurred if the age distribution bad been as in 1891. | Death-rate in 1906. | Deaths in 1906. | Deaths that would have occurred if the age distribution had been the same as in 1891. |
| 0—5 | 48.85 | 927 | 961 | 40.75 | 745 | 857 |
| 5—15 | 2.17 | 69 | 76 | 2.24 | 72 | 80 |
| J5—25 | 2.96 | 96 | 94 | 1.96 | 71 | 70 |
| 25—35 | 5.19 | 154 | 146 | 3.59 | 119 | 111 |
| 35-45 | 8.84 | 186 | 179 | 8.02 | 191 | 180 |
| 45-55 | 19.88 | 295 | 278 | 13.50 | 233 | 216 |
| 55—65 | 33.50 | 312 | 266 | 26.26 | 299 | 281 |
| 65—75 | 77.04 | 3.19 | 292 | 51.11 | 335 | 300 |
| 75 andupwards | 170.29 | 235 | 235 | 142.02 | 392 | 343 |
| Totals | - | 2,593 | 2,527 | - | 2.457 | 2,440 |
The populations on which the above calculations have been based have
been given on page 23.
The Borough Rate Contrasted with those of other places—By
a reference to Table XXV it is seen that not only was the Islington death-rate
lower than that of England and Wales, of the 76 Great Towns but also of rural
England. It was also lower than the death-rate for the County of London, in
which the rate was 15. per 1,000, and than the collective rate of the boroughs
which encircle Islington, which was also 15.1 per 1,000.
The Ages at Death.—These are fully set out in Table XVI where it is
satisfactory to note that there was a decrease in the number of deaths at all
ages up to the 45-55 period of life Thus there was a decrease of 338 when
compared with the average (uncorrected for the increase in the population) of
preceding ten years in the deaths of children under five years of age, of which,
however, 146 were due to the changed incidence of the ages, as set out in the