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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: Table LV.Showing the Death Rates of Islington and of the several Encircling Boroughs from All Causes, from the principal Epidemic Diseases, and from Phthisis in the year 1906.

Table LV.

Showing the Death Rates of Islington and of the several Encircling Boroughs from All Causes, from the principal Epidemic Diseases, and from Phthisis in the year 1906.

THE ENCIRCLING BOROUGHS.Estimated Populations, 1906.Total Death-rates from All Causes.Total Epidemic Death-rates.Death-rate from principal Epidemic Diseases.Death-rates from Phthisis.Deaths under 1 year to 1,000 Births.
Small PoxMeasles.Scarlet Fever.DiphtheriaWhooping Cough.Typhus.Enteric Fever.Simple and Undefined FeversDiarrhoea.
123456789101112131415
St. Pancras236,45515.91.65...0.410.14O.100.30...0.060.000.641.81123
Stoke Newington53.21711.51.10...0.210.020.080.32.........0.471.04102
Hackney230,72113.31.58...0.28O.100.090.170.060.881.30119
Hornsey86,9358.80.97...0.210.080.140.03...0.06...0.450.3585
Finsbury97,46620.73.59...1.270.150.240.56...0.14...1.232.l8160
Shoreditch116,10819.63.13...0.650.160.130.53...0.04...1.622.01163
The above Boroughs820,90215.101.96...0.470.120.120.30...0.060.000.891.53130
Islington344,98714.641.63...0.540.110.090.21...0.06...0.621.19125