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Islington 1921

Sixty-sixth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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11 [1921
Without the Borough—793 deaths of persons belonging to Islington were
registered as occurring in Public Institutions in districts of London outside the
Borough and in various provincial towns. They included, among others, 41 in the Northwestern
Fever Hospital. 55 in the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street, 108 in
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 45 in the Colney Hatch Asylum, 60 in the Royal Free Hospital,
48 in the University College Hospital. 53 in the North-Eastern Fever Hospital, 21 in the
Eastern Fever Hospital, and 31 in the Middlesex Hospital.
These 793 deaths represented 18-1 per cent, of all the deaths registered in the year.
Within and Without the Borough.—The deaths of Islingtonians numbered
2,133 and were equal to 48.8 per cent, of the total deaths registered during the year.
Fatal Accidents or Sudden Deaths outside the Borough-—Ninetythree
inhabitants died from accidental deaths, or suddenly, in places outside Islington.

Table: Showing the Deaths of Inhabitants in Local Institutions and in Institutions outside the Borough, also the Deaths of Non-Inhabitants in Local Institutions during the ten years 1911-1920 and in 1921.

Showing the Deaths of Inhabitants in Local Institutions and in Institutions outside the Borough, also the Deaths of Non-Inhabitants in Local Institutions during the ten years 1911-1920 and in 1921.

Years.Total Deaths in Local Institutions (cols. 3 and 4).Inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions.Non-Inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions.Inhabitants in Islington Infirmary.Inhabitants of Islington in Great Northern Hospital.Inhabitants of Islington in Institutions outside the Borough.Total Deaths of Inhabitants in all Institutions (cols. 3 and 7).Proportion per 100 deaths from all causes (col. 8).
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19111,8041,1816238171137601,94139.9
19121,6931,1845098461277601,94441.5
19131,9381,3615779801158442,20543.8
19142,0341,4076271,0531008752,28246.2
19152,2881,6066821,193988722,47844.9
19162,1481,4606881,0271007752,23547.0
19172,1451,383762952938482,23148.5
19182 5361,7288081,1961108652,59344.4
19191,9461,3825649121247302,11245.5
19201,8421,3225209171177932,11547.3
Average2,0371,4016369891108122,21344.9
19211,8681,3405288361317932,13348.8

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Transferable Deaths.—During the year 60 deaths that had occurred in outlying
Institutions and other places outside the Borough were transferred by the Registrar
General to Islington.
MORTALITY FROM THE PRINCIPAL EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough. Fevers—Typhus,
Enteric and Continued—and Diarrhoeal Diseases.
During the year 285 persons died from these diseases, the death rate being 0.86 per
1,000 inhabitants, as contrasted with 1.01 in the corresponding period last year, and a
decennial average mortality of 352 and a death rate of 1.11 per 1,000.
In London the death rate from the epidemic diseases was 0.96, while in the six Boroughs
encircling Islington the death rate was 1.00.