London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1916
Sixty-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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27 [1916
In London the 268 deaths from these epidemic diseases represented a
death-rate of 0.93 per 1,000 of the civil population, while in the Encircling
Boroughs it was 0.94 per 1,000.
| Ages. | 1st Quarter. | 2nd Quarter. | 3rd Quarter | 4th Quarter. | The Year. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diarrhæa. | Enteritis, etc. | Totals. | Diarrhæa. | Enteritis, etc. | Totals. | Diarrhæa | Enteritis, etc. | Totals. | Diarrhæa. | Enteritis, etc. | Totals. | Diarrhæa. | Enteritis, etc. | Totals. | |
| Under 1 year | 2 | 5 | 1 7 | 4 | 17 | 21 | 13 | 15 | 28 | 12 | 25 | 37 | 31 | 62 | 93 |
| 1 to 5 years | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 21 |
| Over 5 years | 7 | 6 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 35 |
| Totals | 10 | 12 | 22 | 10 | 25 | 35 | 21 | 22 | 43 | 15 | 34 | 49 | 56 | 93 | 149 |
Note—In this Table the deaths under Enteritis include only those which are not epidemic or zymotic