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[1912
Highbury (Population 61,745).—803 deaths were reported, or an increase
of 9 on the average returns of 1905-1911, and the death-rate, 13 0 per 1,000,
consequently showed an increase of 0.3 on the mean rate of the seven years.
Barnsbury (Population 52,821).—The death returns showed that 820
people died, or 76 less than the average of the preceding seven years, and
that these deaths represented a death-rate of 15.52 per 1,000 of the population
as against the mean rate of 16.77, which obtained in the years 1905-1911.
Islington South East (Population 71,292).-—Here the deaths
numbered 1,083, which is 53 below the septennial average. They were equal
to a death-rate of 15-19 per 1,000, which is 0-33 below the mean rate of the
years 1905-1911.

†The deaths of 509 persons who had come from other districts of London for treatment in
the Public Institutions, etc., of Islington are excluded from these returns, while the deaths of
861 residents who had died in Institutions, &c., outside the district are included.