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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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Table: The following table gives a return of the bodies received into the Mortuary and the inquests held by the Coroner during the years 1898 and 1899.

The following table gives a return of the bodies received into the Mortuary and the inquests held by the Coroner during the years 1898 and 1899.

1898.No. of bodies received.Daily Average.No. of Inquests held.1899.No. of bodies received.Daily Average.No. of Inquests held.
1st Quarter2152.41321st Quarter2052.3125
2nd ,,1511.7882nd „1721.9105
3rd „1802.0793rd „1852.091
4th „1661.81034th „2452.6148
Total for Year7121.9402Total for Year8072.2469

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THE BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES.
These most useful and necessary adjuncts to the health defences
of Islington were again largely availed of by its citizens, and show
a net increase on the previous year in the number of persons using
them of 6,080, the figures being 829,217 in 1899 as against 823,137
in 1898.
Swimming Baths.—The bathers in the three sets of swimming
baths at Hornsey Road, Caledonian Road and Tibberton Square,
numbered 402,376 as compared with 395,366 in 1898. There was
thus an increase of 7,010 bathers. In the Hornsey Road Baths
there was an increase of 745 bathers, and in Caledonian of 18,921,
but there was a decrease at Tibberton Square of 12,656. This was,
however, due to no inherent fault in the baths themselves, but
solely to the fact that the Shoreditch Vestry Baths were opened in
1899, and, therefore, naturally attracted to them the numerous
bathers, residents in Shoreditch, who previously patronized the
Tibberton Square Baths.