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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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Table: T able XVII.Showing the Corrected Mean Number of Deaths from the Principal Epidemic Diseases 1885-1914 and in 1915.

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 pox7..- 7
Measles167153- 14
Scarlet Fever4038- 2
Diphtheria9457- 37
Whooping Cough140103- 37
Typhus Fever......
Enteric Fever335- 28
Continued & Ill-defined Fevers......
Diarrhœa17794- 83
The above Diseases658450- 208

Table: The deaths in the Sub-Registration Districts arising from Epidemic Diseases were as follows:—

The deaths in the Sub-Registration Districts arising from Epidemic Diseases were as follows:—

1st Qr.Deaths.4th Qr.Year.
2nd Qr.3rd Qr.
Tufnell10114833
Upper Holloway202812672
Tollington18226854
Lower Holloway142013754
Highbury2021111472
Harnsbury2529212190
Islington South East1030161309
The Borough1291018377450