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[1923
in the Royal Northern Hospital 116. The deaths of inhabitants of Islington in Institutions
outside the Borough were 817; the total deaths in all Institutions, 2,161; and the proportion
per 100 deaths from all causes, 46 8.
Transferable Deaths.—-During the year 57 deaths that had occurred in outlying
Institutions and other places outside the Borough were transferred by the RegistrarGeneral
to Islington.
MORTALITY FROM THE PRINCIPAL EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough. Fevers—Typhus,
Enteric and Continued—and Diarrhœal Diseases.
During the year 128 persons died from these disease?, the death-rate being 0.38 per
1,000 inhabitants, as contrasted with 1.05 in the corresponding period last year, and a
decennial average mortality of 325 and a death-rate of 1.02 per 1,000.
The death-rate of 0.38 per 1,000 of the population was the lowest rate hitherto
recorded in Islington.
In London the death-rate from the epidemic diseases was 0.54, while in the six Boroughs
encircling Islington the death-rate was 0.37.
Locally the deaths in the Sub-Registration Districts and Wards were as follows:—