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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] 22
In the boroughs surrounding Islington, the infantile mortality rates were as follows:—
| The Encircling Boroughs. | Hornsey | 84 per 1,000 births |
| Stoke Newington | 103 „ | |
| Hackney | 109 „ | |
| Shoreditch | 144 „ | |
| Finsbury | 128 „ | |
| St. Pancras | 104 „ | |
| The Encircling Boroughs | 114 „ | |
| Islington | 107 „ | |
MORTALITY FROM THE PRINCIPAL EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Fevers
("Typhus, Enteric and Continued) and Diarrhœal Diseases.
Four hundred and fifty deaths were registered during the year, which were
equal to an annual death-rate of 142 per 1,000 of the civil population, as
contrasted with 422, and a death-rate of 1.33 per 1,000 in the ten years
immediately preceding. As compared with the year 1914, the number of
deaths was 15 in excess, and showed an increase in the death-rate of 0 08
per 1,000.
A return, giving the record of deaths from the principal epidemic diseases
for the last 30 years is attached, from which it is seen that notwithstanding
the almost continuous fall from 3.69 per 1,000 in 1885, to 0.97 in 1913; the
last two years exhibit a slight rise in the death-rates for those periods, viz:
1.34 in 1914 to 1.42 in 1915. Yet when taking the corrected average number
of deaths during 1885-1914, the past year shows a decrease of 208 on the
thirty years average.
In London the total epidemic deaths represented a death-rate of 1.57
per 1,000 of the population, while in the Encircling Boroughs it was 1.52 per
1,000.