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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 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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9 1938
| Institutions. | 1938. | 1937. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residents. | Non-Residents. | Total. | Residents. | Non-Residents. | Total. | |
| Archway Hospital | 332 | 423 | 755 | 215 | 474 | 689 |
| Royal Northern Hospital | 78 | 185 | 263 | 88 | 201 | 289 |
| London Fever Hospital | 1 | 33 | 34 | — | 37 | 37 |
| St. Mary, Islington, Hospital | 904 | 63 | 967 | 1,180 | 58 | 1,238 |
| Islington Institution | 97 | 35 | 132 | 152 | 45 | 197 |
| Mildmay Memorial Hospital | 34 | 19 | 53 | 22 | 21 | 43 |
| Other smaller Institutions | 17 | 37 | 54 | 22 | 47 | 69 |
| Totals | 1,463 | 795 | 2,258 | 1,679 | 883 | 2,562 |
| Percentage of Borough Mortality | 420 | — | - | 44.0 | — | — |
| 1938. | 1937. | |
|---|---|---|
| North Western Fever Hospital | 23 | 31 |
| North Eastern Fever Hospital | 30 | 9 |
| Eastern Fever Hospital | 18 | 17 |
| Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street | 15 | 10 |
| St. Bartholomew's Hospital | 46 | 30 |
| Royal Free Hospital | 39 | 47 |
| University College Hospital | 51 | 37 |
| City of London Maternity Hospital | 4 | 7 |
| Metropolitan Hospital | 7 | 8 |
| Middlesex Hospital | 9 | 20 |
| Friern Hospital, New Southgate, N. | 15 | 6 |
| Claybury Hospital, Woodford Bridge, Essex | 12 | 19 |
| Tooting Bee Hospital, Tooting Bee Road, S.W.17 | 18 | 29 |
| Other Institutions | 734 | 643 |
| Totals | 1,021 | 913 |
| Percentage of Borough Mortality | 29.3 | 23.9 |
Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths outside the Borough.—54 inhabitants
died from accidents, or suddenly, in places outside Islington.
Transferable Deaths.—During the year 42 deaths of residents that had
occurred in outlying Institutions and other places in England and Wales were
transferred by the Registrar-General to Islington.
MORTALITY FROM THE PRINCIPAL EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Diphtheria, Fevers—
Typhus, Enteric and Continued—and Diarrhœal Diseases.
During the year 173 persons died from these diseases, the death-rate being
0.59 per 1,000 inhabitants, as contrasted with 0.40 in 1937, and a decennial average
mortality of 163 and a death-rate of 0.52 per 1,000.
In London the death-rate from epidemic diseases was 0.31.