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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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The following return gives the deaths at each age period :
| Age Periods. | Males. | Females. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.5 | 3 | _ | 3 |
| 5.15 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 15.25 | 22 | 23 | 45 |
| 25.35 | 31 | 36 | 67 |
| 35.45 | 38 | 16 | 54 |
| 45.55 | 52 | 22 | 74 |
| 55.65 | 25 | 8 | 33 |
| 65 upwards | 7 | — | 7 |
| Total | 180 | 109 | 289 |
| Quarters. | Tufnell. | Upper Hollo. way. | Tolling. ton. | Lower Hollo. way. | Highbury. | Barns. bury. | Islington, South East. | The Borough |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First | 12 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 22 | 82 |
| Second | e | 5 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 68 |
| Third | 4 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 16 | 63 |
| Fourth | 10 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 11 | 22 | 76 |
| The Year | 32 | 26 | 20 | 37 | 55 | 43 | 76 | 289 |
| Form. | Ages. | Sex. | Districts. | Total Deaths | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1 | 1.6 | over 5 | M. | F. | Tuf. | U.H. | Toll. | L.H. | H. | B. | S.E. | ||
| Respiratory | 1 | 2 | 286 | 180 | 109 | 32 | 26 | 20 | 37 | 55 | 43 | 76 | 289 |
| Meningeal | 6 | 16 | 11 | 22 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 33 |
| Abdominal | 1 | — | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
| General | — | — | 5 | 5 | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |||
| Other forms | — | 1 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | |
| All Tuberculosis | 8 | 19 | 324 | 223 | 128 | 37 | 30 | 27 | 43 | 63 | 55 | 96 | 351 |
DEATHS FROM THE DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM.
(Exclusive of Tuberculosis and Influenza.)
These diseases, which include Chronic and Acute Bronchitis, Pneumonia,
Pleurisy and Asthma, caused 709 deaths, or 47 less than in 1925. They were
equal to a death.rate of 2.1 per 1,000 of the civil population, and represented 17
per cent, of the total deaths registered in the Borough.
Acute Bronohitis.—There were 78 deaths as compared with 80 in the
previous year. 41 occurred among males, and 37 among females. The deaths of
9 infants under 12 months were registered.
Chronic Bronchitis.—188 deaths were ascribed to it, 94 being males and
94 females. This return is 52 below that for 1925.