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[1899
the Great Towns, and would be fairly comparable with the towns I
have mentioned in discussing the mortality in Upper Holloway.
Its present death-rate is higher than any experienced since
1893 when it was 21.65 per 1,000.
An examination of the mortality returns shows that in every
one of the great classes of disease the death-rates arising therefrom
were above the average of Islington itself, and also that Miasmatic,
Constitutional and Developmental diseases, as well as Diseases
of the Digestive and Urinary systems were more fatal than in any
other sub-district, as were those diseases classed under the heading
"ill-defined."
Further particulars respecting this district are given in Tables
XV. and XVI. page 35.
South-East Islington.
The registered deaths amounted to 1,318, which is 85 more
than the corrected average of the preceding eight years. The
death-rate was 19.33 compared with a mean rate of 18.09 Per 1,000 of
the population. The death-rates from Constitutional, Nervous,
and Respiratory Diseases, and also from Violence, were higher than
in any other sub-district, and it is chiefly to them that the increase
in the mortality is due.
This sub-district as well as Highbury is fairly comparable, so
far as population is concerned, with ten of the Large Towns, some
of which, however, have natural advantages which South-east
Islington does not possess, and are also more favourably circumstanced
as regards the status in life of their inhabitants. These towns,
together with their respective populations and mortality returns for
the year are as follows:—