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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 1899
Forty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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The birth-rate was almost identical with the rate of 1898, when
it was 27.4 per 1,000, which was the lowest on record. Islington is
not, however, alone in low birth-rates, for the Registrar-General has
reported that the birth-rate for England and Wales during 1899 was
lower than in any other year on record, and he has also intimated
that this was also the case in London. The birth-rates of the
London Districts ranged from 12.2 in St. Martin to 44.4 in
St. Luke, while in the Great Towns the lowest birth-rate (20.2 per
1,000) was known at Bristol, and the highest at Gateshead
(36.6 per 1,000).
The following statement gives the birth-rate for the country as well as for some of the most populous places:—
| England and Wales | 29.3 per 1,000. | ||
| 67 Urban Districts | 29.4 ,, | ||
| London | 29.4 ,, | ||
| Birmingham | 34.3 ,, | ||
| Liverpool | 35.6 ,, | ||
| Manchester | 32.6 ,, | ||
| Leeds | 30.6 ,, | ||
| Sheffield | 34.6 ,, | ||
| Bristol | 29.2 ,, | ||
| The Encircling Districts | 29.3 ,, | ||
| St. Pancras | 2 7.1 ,, | ||
| Stoke Newington | 22.8 „ | ||
| Hackney | 29.1 ,, | ||
| Hornsey | 22.1 ,, | ||
| Clerkenwell | 31.1 ,, | ||
| St. Luke | 44.4 „ | ||
| Shoreditch | 34.2 ,, | ||