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Islington 1924
Sixty-ninth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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15 [1924]
Each Centre annually reports in detail upon its work for the year, and fur
particular information reference should be made to these Reports.
It is noticed on lookin0g over the past reports of the Centres that while each
year marks advancement and progress in the good work done, conditions of
indifference arc gradually disappearing with the higher ideal of home life. New
methods of treatment, such as "Artificial Sunlight" and provision for convalescence,
must be undertaken; the Centres, indeed, have to keep in advance
of the times.
I need hardls reiterate the indebtedness of the community to the ladies who
wholeheartedly give their time and services in this voluntary work.
WELFARE CENTRES' DISTRICTS. POPULATION.
| NORTH. Wards 1. 2, 3, | SOUTH. Wards 9, 10, 11, and Part of 6. | EAST. Ward 5, and Parts of 4 and 6. | WEST. Wards 7, 8, and Part of 4. | Total. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 (Approximate Estimate) | 98,410 | 96,610 | 53,320 | 89,060 | 337,400 29,354 up to 5 years old. | |||
| BIRTHS. | ||||||||
| 1923 | 2,063 (Actual) | 1,600 (Approximate) | 1,123 (Approximate) | 2,308 (Approximate) | 7,100 | |||
| 1924 | 1,890 (Actual) | 1,625 (Approximate) | 1,087 (Approximate) | 2,197 (Approximate) | 6,799 | |||
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Within the Borough.—1,903 persons died in the Public Institutions
located in Islington, of whom 1,273 belonged to this Borough, the remaining 630
having come here for treatment or relief: Of these, 407 died in the Archway
House, 117 in the Royal Northern Central Hospital and 36 in the London Fever
Hospital.
Of the 1,273 deaths of inhabitants, 891 occurred in the Islington Infirmary,
227 in the Islington Institution, and 133 in the Royal Northern Central Hospital.
The proportion which the 1,273 deaths in the Public Institutions bore to the
Borough mortality was 30 per cent.
Without the Borough.—778 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 North-Western Fever Hospital, 33 in the Children's Hospital, Great
Ormond Street, 89 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 35 in the Colney Hatch Asylum,
50 in the Royal Free Hospital, 43 in the University College Hospital, 25 in the
North-Eastern Fever Hospital, 19 in the Eastern Fever Hospital, 28 in the
Middlesex Hospital, and 23 in the City of London Maternity Hospital.
These 778 deaths represented 18.4 per cent. of all the deaths registered in
the year.
Within and Without the Borough.— The deaths of Islingtonians numbered
2,051 and were equal to 48.6 per cent. of the total deaths registered during
the year.