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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 LIX. Showing the Death-rates from All Causes, from the principal Epidemic Diseases, together with the Infantile Mortality, in the Country, in the Pofutons Towns, in Towns whose Populations exceed 300,000 inhabitants, in the Encircling Boroughs, and in Islington.

Table LIX. Showing the Death-rates from All Causes, from the principal Epidemic Diseases, together with the Infantile Mortality, in the Country, in the Pofutons Towns, in Towns whose Populations exceed 300,000 inhabitants, in the Encircling Boroughs, and in Islington.

All Causes.Principal Epidemic Diseases (Cols. 3-9).Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Fever.Diarrhoea.Deaths under 1 Year to 1,000 Births.
Cols.1.2.3.456.7.89.10.
England and Wales14.51120 000. 350.090.140. 200 060 28109
76 Great Towns14.71 420 000. 480.110 .150. 240 06038118
143 Smaller Towns13.9108..0. 330. 090.160 .170 060 27111
England and Wales 1ess the 219 Towns .14.50. 800.000.210.060 .140. 160060 1798
London14.-01.310.000.480.080 .130.260 .030. 33108
Bristol12. 70.870.020.240.030.140.140.030 .27100
Birmingham15.42.03..0.930.190 .160.260.040 .45134
Liverpool19. 02.11..0.610.280.150.300.070.70144
Manchester17.91.81..0.620.260.170.190.140.43134
Leeds14.10.80..0.160. 020 .130.170.090.23122
Sheffield15.11.78..0.880. 090 .080 .110 .070.55118
St. Pancras14.80.97..0.440.070.120 .130. 020.19102
Stoke Newington11.30. 63..0.180.060 .040 .260.020.0780
Hackney12.60. 93..0.240.040 .080 .220. 030.32102
Hornsey8.40.46..0.130.020 .100.13...0.0861
Finsbury19.22. 36..0. 890.120 .150 .540. 030.63131
Shoreditch19. 02.87..1.140.080.190.630.050.78140
Encircling Boroughs14 .21. 29..0.480.060 .110..270. 030.34107
Islington14.01.19..0.560.070.090.250. 030.19103

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INFLUENZA.
Influenza was the registered cause of 70 deaths during the year, as contrasted
with 81 in the preceding year, and an average of 76 in the 11 years
1898-1908. The returns show that 36 deaths occurred in the first quarter,
19 in the second, 4 in the third, and 11 in the fourth, and that the largest
number '20) of them occurred between 65 and 75 years of age, thus showing
that the disease is particularly fatal to old people.