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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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1916] 28
INFLUENZA.
During the year Influenza caused 36 deaths, which is a decrease of 19 on
the average of the preceding ten years and 35 on the return for the year 1915.
The annual death-rate was equal to 0.12 per 1,000 of the civil population as
compared with a mean decennial rate of 0.16 per 1,000.

Table: Showing theDeathsfromInfluenzain the Quarters of the Year1916,together with the corrected averages of the corresponding periods1906-1915.

Showing theDeathsfromInfluenzain the Quarters of the Year1916,together with the corrected averages of the corresponding periods1906-1915.

Years.Quarters.Totals
First.Second.Third.Fourth.
1906132172667
1907481241175
190852203681
1909361941170
19102162736
19111891937
19121442828
1913251851058
19141753530
191552113571
Averages301231055
19169721836
Increase or Decrease-21-5-1+ 8-19