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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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figures. Next there was a drop of 30 per cent., then in the 1891-5
period an increase of 155 per cent., while in the next four years
there was a decrease of slightly over 19 per cent. We are therefore
at present on the downward curve; but that it will continue to fall is
open to considerable doubt.
Since 1885 the deaths and death-rates from Diphtheria in Islington have been as follows :—
| Deaths. | Death-rates. | Deaths. | Death-rates. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | 167 | 0.56 | 1894 | 208 | 0.63 |
| 1886 | 72 | 0.24 | 1895 | 137 | 0.41 |
| 1887 | 46 | 0.15 | 1896 | 247 | 0.73 |
| 1888 | 50 | 0.16 | 1897 | 115 | 0.34 |
| 1889 | 62 | 0.20 | 1898 | 90 | 0.26 |
| 1890 | 81 | - | - | - | |
| 1891 | 158 | 0.49 | Crctd. Mean | 138 | 0.39 |
| 1892 | 150 | 0.46 | - | - | - |
| 1893 | 189 | 0.58 | |||
Decrease, 18 deaths.
In the several Towns and London Districts with which I usually contrast the Islington returns I find the death-rates were as follows:—
| London | 0.43 per 1,000 inhabitants. |
| Birmingham | 0.28 „ |
| Liverpool | 0.33 ,, |
| Manchester | 0.15 ,, |
| Leeds | 0.77 ,, |
| Sheffield | 1.27 ,, |
| St. Pancras | 0.45 ,, |
| Stoke Newington | 0.17 ,, |
| Hackney | 0.40 ,, |
| Hornsey | 0.06 ,, |
| Clerkenwell | 0.42 ,, |
| St. Luke | 0.24 ,, |
| Shoreditch | 0.54 ,, |