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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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[1924] 16
Fatal Accidents or Sudden Deaths outside the Borough.—
Ninety-nine inhabitants died from accidental deaths, or suddenly, in places outside
Islington.
During the previous year (1923) the total deaths in Local Institutions numbered
1,772, being 1,218 inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions, plus 551
non-inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions, the number in Islington
Infirmary being 831, the number in the Royal Northern Hospital 132. The
deaths of inhabitants of Islington in Institutions outside the Borough were 706.
The total deaths in all Instiutions, 1,924; and the proportion per 100 deaths from
all causes, 49.3.
A table showing the Institutional deaths of former years appeared in Report,
1922.
Transferable Deaths.— During the year 45 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 Diarrhœal Diseases.
During the year 227 persons died from these diseases, the death-rate being
0.66 per 1,000 inhabitants, as contrasted with 0.38 in the corresponding period
last year, and a decennial average mortality of 305 and a death-rate of 0.92 per
1,000.
In London the death-rate from the epidemic diseases was 0.72, while in the
six Boroughs encircling Islington the death-rate was 0.74.
Locally the deaths in the Sub-Registration Districts and Wards were as
follows :—
| Sub-Registration Districts. | Wards | Enteric Fever. | Small Pox. | Measles | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Diarrhoea. | Totals. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths | Deaths | Deaths | Deaths | Deaths | Deaths | Deaths | Deaths | |||
| Tufnell | Tufnell | – | – | 9 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 22 | |
| Up. Holloway | Up. Holloway | – | – | 6 | – | 6 | 3 | 1 | 16 | |
| Tollington | Tollington | – | – | 9 | – | 9 | 1 | 1 | 20 | |
| Lr. Holloway | Lr. Holloway | 9 | – | 13 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 32 | |
| Highbury | Highbury | 1 | – | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 16 | |
| Mildmay | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | ||
| Barnsbury | Thornhill | – | – | 20 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 46 | |
| Barnsbury | 1 | – | 13 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 23 | ||
| Islington South East | St. Mary's | – | – | 8 | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 | |
| Canonbury | – | – | 8 | – | 3 | 2 | 2 | 15 | ||
| St. Peter's | – | – | 11 | – | – | 1 | 6 | 18 | ||
| The Borough | 4 | – | 103 | 10 | 57 | 33 | 20 | 227 | ||
| Total Death Rates | 0.01 | – | 0.30 | 0.03 | 0.17 | 0.09 | 0.06 | 0.66 | ||