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QUARTERLY REPORT
ON THE
HEALTH & SANITARY CONDITION of ST. MARY, ISLINGTON.
Third Quarter, 1895. Thirteen Weeks ending Sept. 30th. No. 11.
Public Health Department,
Vestry Hall,
December, 1895.
To the Chairman and Members of the Vestry of St. Alary, Islington.
Madam and Gentlemen,
I have the pleasure to report to you on the health and sanitary
condition of your parish of St. Mary, Islington, during the third quarter
of the year 1895.
And first as regards the
BIRTHS.
I find that 2,487 infants were born, of whom 1,266 were males and
2,487 were females. These represent an annual birth-rate of 29.59 per
1,000 of the population. Both in proportion to population and in actual
numbers, the largest record was that of South-west Islington, in which
there were 859 births, and of which the birth-rate was 31.95. The
smallest number of births was registered in Highbury, where the newly
born infants were 432, and the birth-rate 2773. In Upper Holloway 708