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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 1920
Sixty-fifth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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1920]
Transferable Deaths.—During the year 53 deaths that had occurred
in outlying Institutions and other places outside the Borough were transferred
by the Registrar-General to Islington.
MORTALITY FROM THE PRINCIPAL EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Fevers—Typhus,
Enteric and Continued—and Diarrhceal Diseases.
During the year 340 persons died from these diseases, the death rate
being 1.01 per 1,000 inhabitants, as contrasted with 0.41 in the corresponding
period last year and a decennial average mortality of 360 and a death rate of
1.14 per 1,000.
In London the death rate from the epidemic diseases was 0.9 while in
the six Boroughs encircling Islington, the death rate was 1.2.
Locally the deaths in the Sub-Registration Districts and Wards were
as follows:—