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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] 34
It is significant that notwithstanding the increase in the number of deaths
yet the actual notified cases of the disease fell to 944 from 1,150 in the
preceding year.
The number of deaths from tuberculosis in each year for the preceding ten years has been as follows:—
| Year. | Deaths. | Death Rates. |
|---|---|---|
| 1905 | 580 | 1.75 |
| 1906 | 578 | 1.74 |
| 1907 | 608 | 1.84 |
| 1908 | 604 | 1.83 |
| 1909 | 582 | 1.77 |
| 1910 | 539 | 1.64 |
| 1911 | 512 | 1.56 |
| 1912 | 553 | 1.69 |
| 1913 | 535 | 1.61 |
| 1914 | 568 | 1.75 |
| Average | 566 | 1.72 |
| 1915 | 631 | 1.99 |
Pulmonary Phthisis.—To this disease 496 deaths were ascribed, as contrasted with a decennial average of 406, while the death-rate was 1.57 per 1,000 of the civil population, as against a decennial rate of 1.28 per 1,000. Thus it is seen there was an increase of 90 on the average number of deaths, and 0.29 on the mean death-rate.
| years | Pulmonary Phthisis. | Proportion of Deaths from Phthisis per 100 Deaths from All Causes. | Death rates from All Causes per 1,000 inhabitants. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths | Death rates per 1,000 inhabitants. | |||
| 1905 | 438 | 1.32 | 8.84 | 14.9 |
| 1906 | 411 | 1.24 | 8.14 | 15.3 |
| 1907 | 436 | 1.32 | 8.58 | 15.4 |
| 1908 | 432 | 1.29 | 9.23 | 13.9 |
| 1909 | 424 | 1.29 | 8.62 | 14.9 |
| 1910 | 390 | 1.19 | 8.62 | 13.8 |
| 1911 | 379 | 1.16 | 7.88 | 14.9 |
| 1912 | 427 | 1.31 | 9.12 | 14.3 |
| 1913 | 420 | 1.26 | 8.35 | 15.1 |
| 1914 | 461 | 1.42 | 9'33 | 15.2 |
| Corrected average 10 years | 406 | 1.28 | 8.65 | 14.8 |
| 1915 | 496 | 1.57 | 8.98 | 17.4 |