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Islington 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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1912]
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CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
These include Cancer, Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism, Rickets, Diabetes,
Gout, Anaemia, Gangrene, Purpura and Tuberculosis, which are some of the
most important diseases that afflict mankind.
Although the number of deaths registered is 38 lower than the average
of the 22 years, 1891-1911, yet they are more numerous than in 1910 or 1911,
when they numbered respectively 989 and 943. The 1,023 deaths now
registered were equal to an annual death-rate of 313 per 1,000 inhabitants;
as contrasted with a mean rate of 318 in the 22 years above mentioned.
The following statement gives the particulars for each of the
| Deaths | Death rates. | Deaths. | Death-rates. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 1,064 | 3.32 | 1901 | 1,080 | 3.22 |
| 1892 | 1,037 | 3.21 | 1902 | 1,101 | 3.23 |
| 1893 | 1,093 | 3.18 | 1903 | 1,070 | 3.21 |
| 1894 | 997 | 3.02 | 1904 | 1,116 | 3.36 |
| 1895 | 1,114 | 3.33 | 1905 | 1,007 | 3.03 |
| 1896 | 1,122 | 3.26 | 1906 | 1,042 | 3.15 |
| 1897 | 1,084 | 3.21 | 1907 | 1,041 | 3.15 |
| 1898 | 1,067 | 3.17 | 1908 | 1,048 | 3.12 |
| 1899 | 1,115 | 3.32 | 1909 | 1,032 | 3.14 |
| 1900 | 1,119 | 3.33 | 1910 | 989 | 3.01 |
| 1911 | 943 | 2.88 | |||
| Average | 1,061 | 3.18 | |||
CANCER.
It is most regrettable to have to report that there were 382 deaths from
this disease during the year, of which 160 were those of males and 222 of
females, while the death-rate was 117 per 1,000 of the population. This is the
highest record the Borough has ever known, as shown in the following
statement, which gives the mortality among males and females in each year
since 1891.