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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 1915

Sixtieth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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1915]
These deaths include three centenarians who died during the first and
third quarters of the year. In the former period a female, aged 100 years,
died in the St. John's Road Workhouse, and a male, aged 105 years, died in
the Islington Infirmary; while in the latter period an old man who had reached
100 years, passed away in the St. John's Road Institution.

Table: Table VIII.Showing theDeaths (arranged in Classes) fromAll Causes,in theTen Years 1905-14,and in1915.

Table VIII.

Showing theDeaths (arranged in Classes) fromAll Causes,in theTen Years 1905-14,and in1915.

Classified Causes of Death.Years.Corrected Mean 10 years.1915Difference.
1905190619071908190919101911191219131914
1. Specific or Febrile Causes645699590508548539722397448572546616+70
1. Miasmatic Diseases380420416326426403330300284299345450+ 105
2. Diarrhœal2062131031176776326369917413794-43
3. Malarial ,,......1......1...1...1.........
4. Zoogenous ,,2521...11...422...-2
5. Venereal ,,18161620l515131719211623+ 7
6. Septic ,,394552444043524342754649+ 3
II. Parasitic Diseases3......4112...1...1...- 1
III. Dietic312240262711181917112136+ 15
IV. Constitutional Diseases100710421041104810329899571023103210569851131+ 146
V. Developmental422401420398411382429396468512408554+ 146
VI. Local252725242662237925642303240125002718248824152839+ 424
1. Diseases of Nervous System337343322270297282277260376363302418+ 116
2. ,, Organs of Special Sense219101110716420141217+ 5
3. „ Circulatory System623696697619661645642754733660648721+ 73
4. ,, Respiratory ,,1007914113692710878708589809588969271141+ 214
5. ,, Digestive ,,331347298311282280342290362304303319+ 16
6. ,, Lymphatic ,,7512111791061015109- 1
7. „ Urinary156157131180174177220166213193170181+ 11
8. ,, Reproductive ,,273233302017122526182318- 5
9. ,, Bones and Joints914111211101910610118- 3
10. „ Integumentary System971285655141597- 2
VII. Violence175215181169193194213227195201189222+ 33
1. Accident or Negligence140168133124147138167177157165146182+ 36
2. Homicide565746453353- 2
3. Suicide304143384248424534333837- 1
4. Execution...............2......1............
VIII. Ill-defined Causes14514714514714210412412014998127125- 2
All Causes495550505079467949184523486646825028493846925523+ 831