Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Fifty-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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Epidemic death-rate. | |
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West Ham | 3.17 per 1,000 inhabitants. |
Bristol | 1.56 „ „ |
Birmingham | 278 „ „ |
Nottingham | 2.10 „ „ |
Liverpool | 3.62 ,, ,, |
Manchester | 3.09 „ „ |
Salford ... | 3.23 „ „ |
Bradford | 2.03 „ „ |
Leeds | 2.23 „ „ |
Sheffield | 2.92 „ „ |
Hull | 2.93 „ „ |
Edinburgh | 1.27 „ „ |
Glasgow | 2.19 „ „ |
Dublin | 1.78 „ „ |
Islington | 1.63 „ „ |
The higher death-rates in Lower Holloway and Barnsbury were due to
a heavier incidence of epidemic diarrhoea. (Vide Tables XXX. and XXXI.)
The number of the deaths in, and the death-rate of, each sub-registration district were as follows :—
Deaths. | Epidemic Death-rate. | |
---|---|---|
Tufnell | 40 | 1.17 |
Upper Holloway | 37 | 1.03 |
Tollington | 45 | 1.25 |
Lower Holloway | 110 | 2.64 |
Highbury | 62 | 0.92 |
Barnsbury | 140 | 2.59 |
Islington, South East | 128 | 1.68 |
562 | 1.63 |