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METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON
ANNUAL (INTERIM) REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OP HEALTH
for the year 1939•
POPULATION. Registrar-General's estimate of
(a) resident population, mid 1939 288,100
(b) average population appropriate to the
calculation of death rates 272,300
Total M. F.
LIVE BIRTHS.
Legitimate 3,923 1,986 1,937 Birth Rate per 1,000 esti-
IllegitiMate 245 118 127. mated resident population 14.47
STILL BIRTHS.
Legitimate 120 68 52 Rate, per 1,000 Total
Illegitimate 10 5 5 (live and still births) 30.24
DEATHS. 3,485 1,813 1,672 Death Rate per 1,000
mated average population. 12.79
DEATHS FROM PUERPERAI, CAUSES:
Deaths Rate per 1,000 total (live
and still) births. •
Puerperal Sepsis 2 0.49
Other puerperal causes. 4 0.98
Total. 6 1.47
DEATH RATE OF INFANTS UNDER ONE YEAR Of AGE
All infants per 1,000 live births 50
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 47
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 90
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS: The total number of notified births
including stillbirths, from all sources was 3,579. Of this
number, 398 were not notified by midwives.
CLASSIFICATION OF DEATHS: The causes of deaths (3,485) were as
follows: Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers 0, Measles 0, Scarlet
Fever 0, Whooping Cough 12, Diphtheria 10, Influenza 50, Encephalitis
Lethargica 6, Cerebrospinal fever 3, Tuberculosis of respiratory
system 225, other Tubercalosis diseases 29, Syphilis 10,
General paralysis of the Insane 15, Cancer 509, Diabetes 38,
Cerebal haemorrhage 116, Heart disease 930, Aneurysm 21, other
circulatory diseases 199, Bronchitis 152, Pneumonia 238, other
respiratory diseases 25, Peptic Ulcer 53, Diarrhoea 62, Appendicitis
18, Cirrhosis of Liver 6, other diseases of liver 15,
other digestive diseases 70, Nephritis 67, Puerperal Sepsis 2,
other puerperal causes 4> Congenital Debility, Premature birth,
malformations etc. 93, Senility 68, Suicide 42, other Violence 152,
other defined diseases 245, Causes ill defined or unknown 0.
INFANT MORTALITY: There were 204 deaths of infants under one year
of age. The causes of deaths were as follows:- Diptheria 1, Nonpulmonary
Tuberculosis 1, Cerebro-spinal feVer 1, Bronchitis 4,
Pneumonia 33, Congenital Malformations, Premature Births, Malformations
etc. 92. Whooping Cough 7, Influenza 3, Syphilis 1, Canccr 2,
Diarrhoea 44, Other digestive diseases 5,Other violence 7, Other
defined diseases 3.