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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] 30
APPENDICITIS.
This disease caused 19 deaths, which equal the number recorded in 1914, but are 3 below the average (22.) in the preceding decennium.
The ages at which people died from the disease is shown in the following statement:—
| Ages. | 1905 | 1906. | 1907. | 1908. | 1909. | 1910. | 1911. | 1912 | 1913. | Average | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914. | 1905-14. | 1915. | ||||||||||
| 1 | — | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | — | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 2 | |
| 5-10 | 4 | 3 | — | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | — | — | 4 | 2 | 3 | |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | — | 5 | 2 | 3 | — | |
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 25-35 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 35-45 | 4 | 5 | — | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 45-55 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | — | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
| 55-65 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | — | 3 | 1 | — | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| 65-75 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | — | 1 | — |
| 75-85 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Totals | 29 | 20 | 19 | 25 | 25 | 27 | 24 | 13 | 24 | 19 | 22 | 19 |
SEPTIC DISEASES.
These include Erysipelas, Pyaemia, Septicaemia and Puerperal Septic
Infections, which, taken together, caused 49 deaths. These are 26 below the
return for 1914, and 7 above that of 1913, while they are 2 above the average
mortality of the ten years 1905-14.
Erysipelas.—Eleven deaths were ascribed to it, or 9 below the number
recorded in 1914, and 1 less than the ten years' average for 1905-14.
Puerperal Septic Diseases.—These diseases, which refer to Puerperal
Pyaemia, Septicaemia, Septic Intoxication and Puerperal Fever, caused 8 deaths,
and were 4 below the number registered in 1914, and 1 less than the average
of the preceding ten years.
During the first quarter 1 death was registered, in the second 4, in the
third 1, and in the fourth quarter 2, The death-rate per 1,000 births was 1.06.