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Islington 1899
Forty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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[1899
TYPHUS FEVER.
As this disease has practically disappeared from the Metropolis,
it is not surprising to find that no death was referred to it in
Islington during the year. Indeed, in London, only two deaths
were registered, one in Bermondsey and one in Rotherhithe.
In fourteen years only twelve deaths have occurred locally, as may be seen by the following record:—
| 1885 3 deaths. | 1894 0 deaths. |
| 1886 2 „ | 1895 1 „ |
| 1887 2 „ | 1896 0 „ |
| 1888 1 „ | 1897 0 „ |
| 1889 0 „ | 1898 1 „ |
| 1890 0 „ | Corrected Mean 1 „ |
| 1891 1 „ | |
| 1892 0 „ | |
| 1893 1 „ |
ENTERIC FEVER.
Enteric Fever accounted for 47 deaths, equal to a death-rate
of 0.13 per 1,000 persons living in the district. The return
although 11 above that of the preceding year is 3 less than the
corrected average of the fourteen years 1885-98.
The death-rate is less than that of the Metropolis, in which it was
0.17 per 1,000, than that of the Encircling Districts in which it was
the same as in London, and than the rates experienced in England
and Wales, the 33 Great Towns, the 67 Other Large Towns, and
Rural England, in which they averaged respectively, 0.20, 0.22, 0.22
and 0.18 per 1,000 inhabitants. A comparison with the rates of the
largest towns is made in Table
From 1885 to the present time it was responsible locally for
the following deaths:—