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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 XXXIV.
Showing the Death-rates of the Wards from each of the Principal Epidemic Diseases during the Year 1906.
| wards. | Small Pox. | Measles, | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Continued and Ill-defined Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Death-rate from Epidemic Diseases. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tufnell | — | 0.35 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.27 | — | — | — | 0.41 | 1.17 |
| Upper Holloway | — | 0.28 | 0.03 | 0.11 | 0.11 | — | 0.08 | — | 0.42 | 1.03 |
| Tollington | — | 0.08 | 0.05 | 0.17 | 0.11 | — | 0.17 | — | 0.67 | 1.25 |
| Lower Holloway | — | 1.22 | 0.19 | 0.05 | 0.22 | — | — | — | 0.96 | 2.64 |
| Highbury | — | 0.29 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.17 | — | 0.06 | -- | 0.51 | 1.17 |
| Mildmay | - | 0.08 | 0.04 | — | 0.08 | — | 0.04 | — | 0.39 | 0.63 |
| Thornhill | — | 1.28 | 0.12 | 0.12 | 0.57 | — | 0.06 | — | 0.84 | 2.99 |
| Barnsbury | — | 0.54 | 0.10 | 0.14 | 0.20 | — | 0.14 | — | 0.83 | 1.95 |
| St. Mary's | — | 0.46 | 0.06 | 0.17 | 0.11 | — | — | — | 0.29 | 1.09 |
| Canonbury | — | 0.40 | 0.12 | 0.03 | 0.21 | — | — | — | 0.49 | 1.25 |
| St. Peter's | — | 073 | 0.30 | 0.09 | 0.24 | — | o.o6 | — | 0.79 | 22.I |
| Total | — | 0.54 | 0.11 | 0.09 | 0.21 | _ | 0.06 | — | 0.62 | 1.63 |