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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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29 [1910
APPENDICITIS.
This disease caused 15 deaths, which is 4 below the number recorded in
1915, and 6 below the average (21) in the preceding decennium.
The ages at which people died from the disease is shown in the following
statement:—
| Ages. | 1906. | 1907. | 1908. | 1909. | 1910. | 1911. | 1912 | 1913. | 1914. | 1915. | Average 1906-15. | 1916. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0- 5 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | — | 1 | 2 | — | 2 | ||
| 5-10 | 3 | - | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | |
| 10-15 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | — | — | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| 15-20 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | — | 5 | 2 | — | 3 | |
| 20-25 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
| 5 | — | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | — | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | ||
| 2 | 1 | 2 | — | 3 | 1 | — | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1 | — | — | 2 | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | — | — | 1 | 1 | |
| — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | 1 | — | — | — | ||
| 85 and upwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Totals | 20 | 19 | 25 | 25 | 27 | 24 | 13 | 24 | 19 | 19 | 21 | 15 |
SEPTIC DISEASES.
These include Erysipelas, Pyæmia, Septicaemia and Puerperal Septic
Infections, which, taken together, caused 38 deaths; these are 11 below the
return for 1915, and 37 below that of 1914, while they were 11 below the
average mortality of the ten years 1906-15.
Erysipelas.—Six deaths were ascribed to it, which is 5 below the number
recorded in 1915, and 6 less than the ten years average for 1906-15.
Puerperal Septic Diseases.-—These diseases, which refer to Puerperal
Pyaemia, Septicaemia, Septic Intoxication and Puerperal Fever, caused 9 deaths,
and was 1 above the number registered in 1915, and 2 more than the average
of the preceding ten years.