Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Fifty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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1909]
In England and Wales, in the seven greatest towns, and in the boroughs surrounding Islington, the infantile mortality rates were as follows:—
| England and Wales | 109 per 1,000 births | |
| Rural Districts | 98 ,, | |
| 76 Great Towns | 118 „ | |
| 143 Smaller Towns | 111 ,, | |
| London | 108 „ | |
| Birmingham | 134 ,, | |
| Liverpool | 144 ,, | |
| Manchester | 134 ,, | |
| Leeds | 122 „ | |
| Bristol | 100 „ | |
| Sheffield | 118 „ | |
| The Encircling Boroughs. | Hornsey | 61 „ |
| Stoke Newington | 80 „ | |
| Hackney | 102 „ | |
| Shoreditch | 140 „ | |
| Finsbury | 131 ,, | |
| St. Pancras | 102 „ | |
| The Encircling Boroughs | 107 „ | |