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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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SUMMARY
of Vital Statistics, 1920.
Population (Enumerated at Census 1911) 327,403 persons
„ Total, Estimated 1920 (for calculating birth rate) 336,190 persons
„ Civil, Estimated 1920 (for calculating death rate) 335.907 persons
Estimated increase on population, 1911 8,504 persons
Mean Population, ten years (1910-1919) 316,412 persons
Area 3,092 acres
Density 109 persons per acre
Marriages 3i370
Persons married 6,740
Persons married rate 20.05 per 1,000 inhabitants
Males 4,778
Births Females 4,626 } Person 9.404
Birth rate 28.17 per 1,000 inhabitants
Males2,292
Deaths from All Causes Females 2183 } Persons 4.475
Death rate 13.32 per 1,000 inhabitants
Males 164 }
Deaths from Principal Epidemic Diseases Females 176 } 340 persons
Death rate 1.05 per 1,000 inhabitants
Males394 }
Infantile Deaths under 1 year Females 282}Total 676
Infantile mortality rate 72 per 1,000 births
Excess of Births over Deaths 41929