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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 LII. Showing the Death-rates from Enteric Fever of the Sub-Districtsfor each Quarter.

Table LII. Showing the Death-rates from Enteric Fever of the Sub-Districtsfor each Quarter.

Sub-Districts.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Whole Year.
Tufnell....... ...
U pper Holloway0 .11....0.03
Tollington..........
Lower Holloway....0.09..0.02
Highbury0.110.060.06..0.06
Barnsbury0.070.07....0.04
Islington, South East0.050.100.05..0.05
The Borough0.060.040.03..0.03

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TYPHUS FEVER.
No death was recorded during the year.
CONTINUED AND ILL DEFINED FEVERS.
Nil return.
DIARRHCEAL DISEASES.
The most satisfactory of all the returns has been undoubtedly that from
diarrhcea, as only 67 deaths were ascribed to it, as contrasted with a corrected
average of'20.2 in the preceding 24 years. There was thus a decrease of 135
deaths. The return is the lowest recorded from 1885 to the present time, and
although that for 1908 was alow one, yet the return for the year under discussion
is 50 below it. The causes of this decrease must be ascribed in a large
measure to the diminution in the deaths during the third quarter, when there
were only 41 registered, as compared with a corrected average of 134
This large decrease must be attributed mainly to the small number of deaths
among infants in their first year of life, to which reference has been made
under the heading of Infant Mortality. The deaths in ach quarter were
respectively 8, 6, 41 .and 12.