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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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The group of diseases, known as Tuberculosis, together caused 467
deaths which were 99 below the average of the last decennium, and were
also 164 below the number registered in 1918. The death rate resulting from
them was equal to 1.42 per 1,000 of the civil population, and represented 10.1
per cent., or one-tenth, of the deaths from all causes during the year.
1919] 26

Table: The following statement shows the ages at death of the persons attacked during the past eleven years: —

The following statement shows the ages at death of the persons attacked during the past eleven years: —

Ages.1909.1910.19111912.1913.1914.191519161917.1918Average 1909-1918.1919.Difference.
0- 5—2111———2—12+ 1
5-153132—2132—21— 1
15-253544722—5—34+ 1
25-35106571311748885— 3
35-45274032253137243031273036+ 6
45-557972677183697586737575101+ 26
55-6596100921309912112012413199111120+ 9
65-759485878611596105114120126103123+ 20
75-85344731514940394855524539— 6
85&up-wards737566435657+ 2
353361329382404384377412432393383438+55

Table: Showing theDeathsfromCancerorMalignant Diseasein the severalSub-Districtsduring the Quartets and the year1919.

Showing theDeathsfromCancerorMalignant Diseasein the severalSub-Districtsduring the Quartets and the year1919.

Quarters.TufnellUpper HollowayTollingtonLower HollowayHighburyBarnsburyIslington South-EastThe Borough
First10106161792391
Second157111215152398
Third20181018221924131
Fourth12131114291722118
The Year57483860836092438

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TUBERCULOSIS.
among males and 227 among females.