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]
Table XXXIII.
Diseases. | Corrected Average Number of Deaths 1885-1908. | 1909 | Increase or Decrease. |
---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | 9 | .. | - 9 |
Measles | 186 | 197 | + 11 |
Scarlet Fever | 48 | 25 | - 23 |
Diphtheria | 114 | 31 | - 83 |
Whooping Cough | 165 | 86 | - 79 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | |
Enteric Fever | 42 | 12 | - 30 |
Continued & Ill-defined Fevers | 1 | .. | - 1 |
Diarrhœa | 202 | 67 | - 135 |
The above Diseases | 767 | 418 | - 349 |
The following statement contrasts the position of Islington in respect to the Epidemic Diseases with that of the country and of the neighbouring metropolitan boroughs:—
Epidemic death-rates per 1,000 inhabitants | Epidemic death-rates. per 1,000 inhabitants. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
England and Wales | 1.12 | The Encircling Boroughs | |||
76 Great Towns | 1.42 | County of London | West London Districts | ||
143 Smaller Towns | 1.08 | North „ „ | |||
Rural Districts | 0.80 | Central „ „ | 1.69 | ||
The Encircling Boroughs | St. Pancras | 0.9 7 | East ,, ,, | 2.08 | |
Stoke Newington | 0.63 | South „ „ | 1.25 | ||
Hackney | 0.93 | County of London | 1.31 | ||
Hornsey | |||||
Finsbury | 2.36 | ||||
Shoreditch | 2.87 | ||||
West Ham | 2.24 | Salford | |||
Bristol | 0.87 | Bradford | 0.68 | ||
Birmingham | 2.03 | Leeds | 0.8o | ||
Nottingham | 1.67 | Sheffield | 178 | ||
Liverpool | 2.11 | Hull | 1.38 | ||
Manchester | 1.81 |