Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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1912]
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Table XXIV.
Classified Diseases. | Tufnell | Upper Holloway. | Tollington. | Lower Holloway. | Highbury. | Barnsbury. | South-East Islington. | The Borough. | ||||||||
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Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | |
Miasmatic | 22 | 0.65 | 32 | 0.85 | 22 | 0.73 | 53 | 1.36 | 40 | 0.65 | 73 | 1.38 | 58 | 0.81 | 300 | 0.92 |
Diarrhœal | 2 | 0.06 | 3 | 0.08 | 2 | 0.06 | 3 | 0.07 | 6 | 0.09 | 10 | 0.19 | 10 | 0.14 | 36 | 0.11 |
Constitutional | 91 | 2.70 | 113 | 3.01 | 83 | 2.75 | 140 | 3.58 | 182 | 2.95 | 173 | 3.27 | 241 | 3.38 | 1,023 | 3.13 |
Developmental | 33 | 0.98 | 45 | 1.20 | 37 | 1.23 | 48 | 1.23 | 74 | 1.20 | 68 | 1.29 | 91 | 1.28 | 396 | 1.21 |
Nervous | 24 | 0.71 | 32 | 0.85 | 15 | 0.49 | 37 | 0.94 | 48 | 0.78 | 45 | 0.91 | 60 | 0.84 | 261 | 0.79 |
Circulation | 72 | 2.13 | 97 | 2.5 | 54 | 1.79 | 89 | 2.28 | 154 | 2.49 | 121 | 2.29 | 167 | 2.34 | 754 | 2.31 |
Respiration | 76 | 2.25 | 141 | 3.75 | 81 | 2.69 | 122 | 3.12 | 128 | 2.07 | 191 | 3.62 | 241 | 3.38 | 980 | 3.01 |
Digestive Organs | 22 | 0.65 | 34 | 0.90 | 32 | 1.06 | 33 | 0.84 | 44 | 0.71 | 53 | 1.00 | 72 | 1.01 | 290 | 0.88 |
Urinary System | 10 | 0.29 | 15 | 0.39 | 20 | 0.66 | 21 | 0.54 | 41 | 0.66 | 20 | 0.38 | 39 | 0.55 | 166 | 0.51 |
Violence | 19 | 0.56 | 30 | 0.79 | 24 | 0.79 | 33 | 0.84 | 35 | 0.56 | 33 | 0.62 | 53 | 0.74 | 227 | 0.69 |
Ill-defined | 8 | 0.24 | 24 | 0.64 | 11 | 0.36 | 20 | 0.51 | 19 | 0.31 | 14 | 0.26 | 23 | 0.32 | 119 | 0.36 |
The heavy figures denote that these death-rates were the highest experienced in the several districts
during the year from the diseases mentioned.