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Public Health Department
Municipal Buildings,
Upper Street, N.l.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Islington.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit the Annual Report on the Health and Sanitary
Conditions of the Borough for the year 1926.
The death-rate for 1926 was equal to 12 per 1,000 of the population, and .3
below that of the preceding year. It is the lowest death-rate since 1923, when
the exceptional figure of 11.6 was recorded.
The infantile mortality rate of 66 is only 3 per 1,000 births above the rate of
last year, 1925 (which was the lowest ever recorded in Islington).
Reference is made in this Report to the developement in a patient under
treatment at the Royal Northern Hospital of Smallpox, contracted on the
continent. This case infected one other only. Although the home addresses of
both patients were outside Islington, one being in another Metropolitan Borough
is statistically transferred to that district; the other home address being outside
the Metropolitan Area is not so transferred. The occurrence involved much
work in tracing and keeping under observation contacts, the visitors to the
hospital being many, while until the safe period was passed, much supervision and
care devolved upon the hospital authorities and the Public Health Department.
I am,
Your obedient Servant,
Medical Officer of Health.