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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]
London 108 per 1,000 births
Birmingham 134 „ ,,
Liverpool 144 „ „
Manchester 134 „ „
Leeds 122 „ ,,
Bristol 100 „ „
Sheffield 118 „ „
The Encircling
Boroughs.
Hornsey 61 per I,ooobirths
Stoke Newington 80 „ ,,
Hackney 102 „ ,,
Shoreditch 140 „ „
Finsbury 131 „ „
St. Pancras 102 „ „
Islington 103 „ „
The deaths among infants and the infantile mortality rates in each district
during 1909 were as follows:—
Deaths per
1,000 Births.
Sub-Districts.
Deaths.
1909.
1908.
Tufnell
81
107
81
Upper Holloway
77
77
74
Tollington
68
96
117
Lower Holloway
110
101
125
Highbury
121
93
101
Barnsbury
166
111
119
South-East Islington
218
117
99
The Borough
841
103
103
TABLE XXV.
Showing the Deaths among Infants per 1,000 Births during the year 1909
and also the mean mortality rates for the years 1902 8.
Sub-Districts.
1902.
1903.
1904.
1905.
1906.
1907.
1908.
Mean
1902 8.
1909.
Decrease.
Tufnell
123
112
141
127
122
127
81
119
107
12
Upper Holloway
103
138
92
101
105
88
74
98
77
21
Tollington
144
105
128
117
127
132
117
127
96
31
Lower Holloway
156
159
161
151
155
148
125
149
101
48
Highbury
114
178
98
117
95
107
101
108
93
15
Barnsbury
151
210
142
124
138
123
119
132
111
21
South East Islington
130
263
134
121
129
104
99
121
117
4
The Borough
132
126
128
123
125
117
103
122
103
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