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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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Transferable Deaths.—During the year 85 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 Diarrhœal Diseases.
During the year 136 persons died from these diseases, the death rate
being 0.41 per 1,000 inhabitants, as contrasted with 1.30 in the corresponding
period last year and a decennial average mortality of 389 and a death rate of
1.23 per 1,000.
This death rate teas the lowest annual rate hitherto recorded in the
borough.
In London the death rate from the epidemic diseases was 0.66 while in
the six Boroughs encircling Islington, the death rate was 0.63.
Locally the deaths in the Sub-Registration Districts and Wards were
as follows :—