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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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[1899
The deaths are also 26 below the corrected mean of the preceding fourteen years, which returns have been as follows:—
| 1885 | 36 deaths. | 1894 | 69 deaths. |
| 1886 | 26 ,, | 1895 | 66 „ |
| 1887 | 59 ,, | 1896 | 57 ,, |
| 1888 | 64 „ | 1897 | 61 „ |
| 1889 | 40 „ | 1898 | 26 „ |
| 1890 | 65 „ | — | |
| 1891 | 50 ,, | Corrected Mean | 59 .. |
| 1892 | 53 „ | — | |
| 1893 | 94 „ |
The returns of the last 15 years have been very different from what they were in former years, for I find that —
| From 1856 to i860 they averaged 119 per annum. |
| „ 1861 to 1865 „ 215 „ |
| „ 1866 to 1870 „ 240 „ |
| „ 1871 to 1875 „ 117 „ |
| „ 1876 to 1880 „ 88 „ |
In the succeeding quinquennial period, 1881-5, the deaths fell
to 51 per annum, but in the next five years, 1886-90, there was a
slight increase, for they averaged 66, only to fall, however, to an
average of 44 per annum in the last four years (1896-99).
I shall have to speak further on this matter in discussing the
mortality from Diphtheria.
In the sanitary areas surrounding the Parish the death-rate
was 0.10 per 1,000.