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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76
1909]
DIPHTHERIA.
It is very satisfactory to find that only 31 deaths occurred during the year
from this disease. This number is 80 less than the corrected annual average
of the years 1885-1908 and is also 29 less than the return of the preceding year,
The deaths were in the proportion of 0.09 per 1,000 of the population, as
compared with a decennial rate of 0.21. The rate is below that of the
County of London, in which it was 0.13. TI.e decrease in the deaths from so
serious a disease must be a matter of congratulation, for it is not so long ago,
in a smaller population, that instead of being numbered by tens, they were
numbered by hundreds. Thus in 1891 there were 178 deaths; in 1893, 200,
in 1894, 218 and in 1896, 257, while so recently as 1901 they numbered 134,
and in 1902, 104.
Table XLVII.
Sub-Districts. | 1st Quarter. | 2nd Quarter. | 3rd Quarter. | 4th Quarter. | Whole Year. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tufnell | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Upper Holloway | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 |
Tollington | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
Lower Holloway | 2 | .. | 2 | 1 | 5 |
Highbury | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 | 4 |
Barnsbury | 2 | 2 | .. | 1 | 5 |
Islington, South East | 5 | 1 | .. | 2 | 8 |
The Borough | 12 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 31 |