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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 1919

Sixty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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Table: Causes of Death (Classified.) —The following table shows the deatns arranged in classes of Disease from All Causes during the ten years 1909-18, and in 1919.

Causes of Death (Classified.) —The following table shows the deatns arranged in classes of Disease from All Causes during the ten years 1909-18, and in 1919.

Classified Causes of Death.Years.Mean 10 years-1919Difference.
1909191019111912191319141915191619171918
I. Specific or Febrile Causes5485397223974485726183803911361597579- 18
1. Miasmatic Diseases4264033303002842994512682931258431466+ 35
2. Diarrhæeal ,,677632636991749456565110436- 68
3. Malarial ,,...1...1...1.........2...2+ 2
4. Zoogenous ,,...11...42...32...11—
5. Venereal ,,151513171921231515151713- 4
6. Septic „404352434275503825354461+ 17
II. Parastiic Diseases112...1......11...11...
III. Dietic27111819171136334152- 13
IV. Constitutional Diseases103298995710231032105611321095111411011053973- 80
V. Developmental411382429396468512554522486520468657+ 189
VI. Lccal256423032401250027182488284724572314259625222177-345
1. Diseases of Nervous System297282277260376363418339351330329322- 7
2. Organs of Special Sense1071642014171214101211- 1
3. ,, Circulatory System661645642754733660722669681691686654- 32
4. ,, Respiratory ,,1087870858980958896114710068871156985770-215
5. ,, Digestive ,,282280342290362304319233243246290215- 75
6. „ Lymphatic „1791061015916931011+ 1
7. ,, Urinary ,,174177220166213193182149130137174151- 23
8. ,, Reproductive „20171225261813241881917— 2
9. ,, Bones and Joints1110191061089591012+ 2
10. ,, Integumentary System565514157...66714+ 7
VII, Violence193194213227195201234183159156195162- 33
1 Accident or Negligence147188167177157165194156122115154132- 22
2. Homicide464533341332- 1
3. Suicide424642453433372311273428- 6
4. Execution...2......1........................
5. By Bombs (Enemy Aircraft)........................25114...- 4
VIII. Ill-defined Causes1421041241201499812511110210311889- 29
All Causes491845234866468250284938554647524600584149694640-329