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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 1909

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

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Table: Table XXI.Showing the Deaths and Death-rates from eleven Classified Diseases in the Sub-Districts and in the Borough.

Table XXI.Showing the Deaths and Death-rates from eleven Classified Diseases in the Sub-Districts and in the Borough.

Classified Diseases.TufnellUpper Holloway.Tollington.Lower Holloway.Highbury.Barnsbury.South-East Islington.The Borough.
Deaths.Death Rates.Deaths.Death Rates.Deaths.Death Rates.Deaths.Death Rates.Deaths.Death Rates.Deaths.Death Rates.Deaths.Death Rates.Deaths.Death Rates.
Miasmatic270.76531.42320.86651.55670.97510.951311.704261.21
Diarrhœal70.1940.1110.02120.29120.17160.29150.19670.19
Constitutional1042.951263.381002.691273.031442.091863.462453.181,0322.94
Developmental381.08561.50401.07441.05580.84841.56911.184111.17
Nervous310.88491.31350.94280.67490.71530.99520.672970.84
Circulation531.50812.17501.34691.651221.771142.121722.246611.88
Respiration942.661042.79952.551453.461912.771823.392763.591,0873.09
Digestive Organs371.05200.54160.43350.84510.74510.95720.932820.80
Urinary System90.25220.59160.43220.52300.43310.58440.571740.49
Violence110.31150.40170.46300.72270.39380.71550.711930.55
Ill-defined160.45130.35140.37230.55160.23260.48340.441420.40

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The heavy figures denote that these death-rates were the highest experienced in the several districts
during the year from the diseases mentioned.
[1909