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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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| Registration Sub-Districts. | Wards. | Pulmonary Phthisis. | Other Forms of Tuberculosis. | Grand Totals. | Tuberculosis Rate per 1,000 of Population, | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Total. | Males. | Females. | Totals. | ||||
| Tufnell | Tufnell | 27 | 23 | 50 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 67 | .. |
| Upper Holloway | Upper Holloway | 55 | 28 | 83 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 98 | .. |
| Tollington | Tollington | 34 | 24 | 58 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 75 | .. |
| Lower Holloway | Lower Holloway | 37 | 32 | 69 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 80 | .. |
| Highbury | Highbury | 27 | 29 | 56 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 69 | .. |
| Mildmay | 15 | 14 | 29 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 36 | .. | |
| Barnsbury | Thornhill | 39 | 26 | 65 | 23 | 10 | 33 | 98 | .. |
| Barnsbury | 38 | 24 | 62 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 74 | .. | |
| St Man's | 25 | 17 | 42 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 53 | .. | |
| Islington South-East | Canonbury | 44 | 33 | 77 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 88 | .. |
| St. Peter's | 36 | 45 | 81 | 12 | 12 | 24 | 105 | .. | |
| Totals | 377 | 295 | 672 | 97 | 74 | 171 | 843 | 2 72 | |
THE PERIODS OF LIFE AT WHICH TUBERCULOSIS ATTACKED THE PERSONS NOTIFIED DURING 1916
| Tubercular Diseases. | Sex. | CASES NOTIFIED IN WHOLE DISTRICT. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages. | At Ages—Years. | ||||||||
| Under 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 15 | 15 to 25 | 25 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and upwards | |||
| Phthisis (including Tuberculosis of | M. | 377 | — | 2 | 17 | 38 | 187 | 118 | 15 |
| F. | 295 | — | 1 | 18 | 68 | 136 | 62 | 10 | |
| Tubercular Meningitis | M. | 20 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 1 | — | — | — |
| F. | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Tabes Mesenterica | M. | 11 | — | 2 | 8 | — | — | 1 | — |
| F. | 11 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | — | — | |
| General Tuberculosis | M. | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| F. | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | M. | 62 | — | 6 | 34 | 7 | 10 | 5 | — |
| F. | 55 | — | 6 | 29 | 12 | 7 | 1 | — | |
| All Tubercular Diseases | M. | 474 | 3 | 23 | 66 | 46 | 197 | 124 | 15 |
| F. | 369 | 4 | 11 | 50 | 85 | 146 | 63 | 10 | |
| Totals | 843 | 7 | 34 | 116 | 131 | 343 | 187 | 25 | |
| Percentages at each life period to total cases | 100 | 0.8 | 4.0 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 40.7 | 22.2 | 2.9 | |