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Islington 1909

Fifty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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[1909
Fourth Quarter.— The healthy condition of the Borough in the second
and third quarters was maintained in the fourth, for in it the deaths only
numbered 1,203, which is 230 less than the corrected average (1,433 )of the ten
years (1899-1908). These deaths were equal to the low annual death-rate of
13.70 per 1000, as compared with a mean decennial rate for the fourth quarters
of 16.32 per 1000. The mortality, in proportion to population, was lower than
any experienced in the borough in any fourth quarter of the years 1886-1908.
The highest mortality occurred in the first week of December, and the lowest
in the third week of October, at which periods the death-rates were respectively
15.89 and 10.24 per 1000 annually.

Table XIII. Showing theEstimated Populations,together with theDeathsandDeath-ratesfromAll Causes,at Nine Age-periodsof life among Males, Females,and Persons.

Males.Females.Persons.
AgesPopulation.Deaths.Death-Rates.Population.Deaths.Death-Rates.Population.Deaths.Death-Rates.
0–519,10274138.7918,66866035.3537,7701,40137.09
5–1532,3857121.932,490692.1264,8751402.16
15–2532,961752.2736,933691.8769,8941442.06
25–3530,1941484.9033,7681233.6463,9622714.23
35–4521,75522910.5223,9871867.7545,7424159.07
45–5515,21729319.2517,43524614.1132,65253916.51
55–659,55531432.8611,63228624.5921,18760028.32
65–754,33433577.306,42935755.5310,76369264.29
75 and upwards1,471281191.032,886435150.734,357716164.33
All ages166,9742,48714.89184,2282,43113.19351,2024,91814.00

The deaths of 634 persons who had come from other districts of London for treatment in
the Public Institutions of Islington are excluded from these returns, while the deaths of 770
residents who had died outside the district are included.