London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

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

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

23 [1899

Table: Locally the birth-rate was nowhere high. It ranged from 24.20 in Highbury to 30.10 in Islington South West, while in Upper Holloway it was 26.91 and in Islington South East 28.55 Per 1.000.

Locally the birth-rate was nowhere high. It ranged from 24.20 in Highbury to 30.10 in Islington South West, while in Upper Holloway it was 26.91 and in Islington South East 28.55 Per 1.000.

Births.Birth-rate.
Upper Holloway 2,792 =26.91 per 1,000.
Islington South West 3,269 =30.10 „
Islington South East. 1,946 =28.55 „
Highbury 1,651 =24.20 „
The Parish 4,958 =2770 „

Table: Table VIII. Showing the Population, Births and Birth-rates in the several decades since 1841, in the eight years 1891-8, and in 1899.

Table VIII. Showing the Population, Births and Birth-rates in the several decades since 1841, in the eight years 1891-8, and in 1899.

Periods. 1Mean Popnlation in each Decade. 2N umber of Births in each Period. 3Birth-rates. 4Average Yearly Number of Births, corrected on the basis of the Population of 1899. 5
1841-5072,76720,85028 659,993
1851-60121,35341,91534 5412,045
1861-70181,52967,52037 2012,970
1871-80244,88489,627366012,762
1881-90299,85797,647325611,355
1891-98 (8years)332,36677,69529 228,151
1899348,7319,65827 709,658