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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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[1909

Table: Table XLVIII. Showing the Death-rates from Diphtheria of the Sub-Districts foreach Quarter.

Table XLVIII. Showing the Death-rates from Diphtheria of the Sub-Districts foreach Quarter.

Sub-Districts.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Whole Year.
Tufnell0.11..0.110.110.08
Upper Holloway0.11....0.110.05
Tollington..0.210.110.110.11
Lower Holloway0.19..0 190.090.12
Highbury0.060.06..0.110.06
Barnsbury0.150.15..0.070. 09
Islington, South East0.260.05..0.100.10
The Borough0.140. 070050.100.09

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WHOOPING COUGH.
There were 86 deaths attributed to Whooping Cough (35 males and 51
females) or 79 less than the corrected average of the preceding'24 years, although
there were 31 more than the number registered in 1908. The deaths were by
no means excessive, for with the exception of the years 1899, 1895, 1901, 1904,
1906 and 1908, they always ran into hundreds, the largest number being 255
in 1891.
The resulting death-rate was 0.41 per 1,000 of the population, as contrasted
with 0.26 in the County of London. In Islington the disease was most fatal in
Barnsbury and South East Islington, in which 16 and 32 deaths were
respectively registered.
Ages at Death.—It is noteworthy that all the deaths, with the
exception of two, occurred among children under five years of age. Thirty-six
were in the first year of life and 48 were between one and five years.