Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Sixtieth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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1915] 24
T able XVII.
Showing the Corrected Mean Number of Deaths from the Principal Epidemic Diseases 1885-1914 and in 1915.
Diseases. | Corrected Average Number of Deaths 1885-1914. | 1915. | Decrease. |
---|---|---|---|
Small pox | 7 | .. | - 7 |
Measles | 167 | 153 | - 14 |
Scarlet Fever | 40 | 38 | - 2 |
Diphtheria | 94 | 57 | - 37 |
Whooping Cough | 140 | 103 | - 37 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 33 | 5 | - 28 |
Continued & Ill-defined Fevers | .. | .. | .. |
Diarrhœa | 177 | 94 | - 83 |
The above Diseases | 658 | 450 | - 208 |
The deaths in the Sub-Registration Districts arising from Epidemic Diseases were as follows:—
1st Qr. | Deaths. | 4th Qr. | Year. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2nd Qr. | 3rd Qr. | ||||
Tufnell | 10 | 11 | 4 | 8 | 33 |
Upper Holloway | 20 | 28 | 12 | 6 | 72 |
Tollington | 18 | 22 | 6 | 8 | 54 |
Lower Holloway | 14 | 20 | 13 | 7 | 54 |
Highbury | 20 | 21 | 11 | 14 | 72 |
Harnsbury | 25 | 29 | 21 | 21 | 90 |
Islington South East | 10 | 30 | 16 | 13 | 09 |
The Borough | 129 | 101 | 83 | 77 | 450 |