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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 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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Year.MalesFemales.Persons.Death-rate.
1891741442180.68
1892701492190.68
1893821562380.73
1894781612390.72
1895961702660.79
1891-9540078011800.72
18961041872910.85
18971121923040.90
18981061772830.84
18991041662700.80
19001151883030.90
1896-0054191014510.86
19011031862890.86
19021331933260.95
19031551953501.05
19041471763230.97
19051381903280.99
1901-0567694016160.96
19061542093631.10
19071771713481.05
19081572103671.09
19091462073531.07
19101582033611.10
1906-10792100017921.08
19111431863291.00
19121602223821.17

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Here it may be seen that since 1891 the deaths from Cancer have risen
from 218, equal to a death-rate of 0.68 per 1,000, in 1891 to 382, equal to a
death-rate of 1T7 per 1,000, in 1912. The mortality rate has therefore risen
72 per cent. In the quinquennial period 1891-1895. the average number of
deaths in each year was 236, and the death-rate 0'72. In In the following quinquennium,
1896-1900, it was 290, and the death-rate was 0.86 ; in the next
period, 1901-1905, it was 323, equal to a death-rate of 0.96, while in the succeeding
five years, 1906-1910, it reached 358 per annum, representing a deaths
rate of 1.08.