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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 XXXIII. Showing the Corrected Mean Number of Deaths from the principal Epidemic Diseases, 1885-1908, and in 1909.

Table XXXIII. Showing the Corrected Mean Number of Deaths from the principal Epidemic Diseases, 1885-1908, and in 1909.

Diseases.Corrected Average Number of Deaths 1885-1908.1909Increase or Decrease.
Small Pox9..- 9
Measles186197+ 11
Scarlet Fever4825- 23
Diphtheria11431- 83
Whooping Cough16586- 79
Typhus Fever....
Enteric Fever4212- 30
Continued & Ill-defined Fevers1..- 1
Diarrhœa20267- 135
The above Diseases767418- 349

Table: 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:—

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 inhabitantsEpidemic death-rates. per 1,000 inhabitants.
England and Wales1.12The Encircling Boroughs1.29
76 Great Towns1.42County of LondonWest London Districts1.11
143 Smaller Towns1.08North „ „0.96
Rural Districts0.80Central „ „1.69
The Encircling BoroughsSt. Pancras0.9 7East ,, ,,2.08
Stoke Newington0.63South „ „1.25
Hackney0.93County of London1.31
Hornsey0.46Islington1.19
Finsbury2.36
Shoreditch2.87
Epidemic death-rates per 1,000 inhabitants.Epidemic death-rates per 1,000 inhabitants.
West Ham2.24Salford2.45
Bristol0.87Bradford0.68
Birmingham2.03Leeds0.8o
Nottingham1.67Sheffield178
Liverpool2.11Hull1.38
Manchester1.81Islington1.19