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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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Table XXXIII.
Showing the Deaths from each of the Principal Epidemic Diseases in the several Wards during the Year 1906.
| WARDS. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria | Whooping Cough. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Continued and Ill-defined Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Total Epidemic Deaths. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tufnell | ... | 12 | 2 | 3 | 9 | — | ... | — | 14 | 40 |
| Upper Holloway | ... | 10 | 1 | 4 | 4 | - | 3 | — | 15 | 37 |
| Tollington | ... | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | — | 6 | — | 24 | 45 |
| Lower Holloway | ... | 51 | 8 | 2 | 9 | — | ... | — | 40 | 110 |
| Highbury | ... | 10 | 2 | 3 | 6 | — | 2 | — | 18 | 41 |
| Mildmay | ... | 2 | 1 | ... | 2 | — | 1 | ... | 10 | 16 |
| Thornhill | ... | 43 | 4 | 4 | 19 | — | 2 | — | 28 | 100 |
| Barnsbury | ... | 11 | 2 | 3 | 4 | — | 3 | — | 17 | 40 |
| St. Mary's | ... | 8 | 1 | 3 | 2 | — | ... | — | 5 | 19 |
| Canonbury | ... | 13 | 4 | 1 | 7 | — | ... | — | 16 | 41 |
| St. Peter's | ... | 24 | 10 | 3 | 8 | — | 2 | — | 26 | 73 |
| Totals | ... | 187 | 37 | 32 | 74 | — | 19 | — | 213 | 562 |