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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 1926
Seventy-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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SUMMARY of Vital Statistics in the Registration Year 1926.
| Population (Enumerated at Census, 1921) 380,787 persons | ||
| „ Estimated Mid Year 1926 839,200 persons | ||
| Increase on Census population, 1921 8,463 persons | ||
| Mean Population, ten years (1916-1925) 823,190 persons | ||
| Area 8,092 acres | ||
| Density (Mid-year 1926) no persons per acre | ||
| Births | Males 8,283 | persons 6,455 |
| Females 3,172 | ||
| Birth rate 19.0 per 1,000 inhabitants | ||
| Deaths from All Causes | Males 2,065 | persons 4,090 |
| Females 2,025 | ||
| Death rate12.0 per 1,000 inhabitants | ||
| Deaths from Principal Epidemic Diseases | Males 90 | 171 persons |
| Females 81 | ||
| Death rate 0.50 per 1,000 inhabitants | ||
| Deaths from All Tuberculosis | Males 223 | 851 persons |
| Females 128 | ||
| Death rate 1.03 per 1,000 inhabitants | ||
| Deaths from Respiratory Tuberculosis | Males 180 | 289 persons |
| Females 109 | ||
| Death rate 0.85 per 1,000 inhabitants | ||
| Infantile deaths under 1 year | Males 248 | Total 427 |
| Females 179 | ||
| Infantile mortality rate 66 per 1,000 births | ||
| Excess of Births over Deaths 2,365 | ||
| Rateable value of Borough of Islington £2,114,443 | ||
| Sum represented by a penny rate £8,810 | ||