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Islington 1913

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

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1913

Table: TABLE LXII.Showing the Deaths from the several Constitutional Diseases during the Years 1903-1912, also the Corrected Mean Number of Deaths for these Years, together with the Deaths in 1913.

TABLE LXII.

Showing the Deaths from the several Constitutional Diseases during the Years 1903-1912, also the Corrected Mean Number of Deaths for these Years, together with the Deaths in 1913.

1903.1904.1905.1906.1907.1908.1909.1910.1911.1912.Corrected Means 1903 1912.1913Increase or Decrease.
Rheumatic Fever16131815119101510151311- 2
Rheumatism212111191314281518201815- 3
Gout61176137425362- 4
Rickets9111111553410174- 3
Cancer350323328363348367353361332382346404+ 58
TuberculosisAbdominal Tuberculosis404039352645413633203430- 4
Tubercular Meningitis717463807463727250676858-10
Phthisis492533438411436432424390387427431420-11
Other Tubercular and t Scrofulous Diseases293540527264454151394628-18
Purpura112133..12223+ 1
Anaemia, Chlorosis, Leuco-cythæmia81415161514131622111418+ 4
Diabetes263528322121363427292935+ 6
Other Diseases1571443210744—
Totals1,0701,1161,0071,0421,0411,0481,0329899571,0231,0181,032+ 14

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DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM.
These include Chronic and Acute Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Pleurisy and
Asthma, and together caused 999 deaths, or 19 more than in the preceding
year, and represented a death-rate of 3.01 per 1,000 of the population. They
formed 19.9 per cent. of all the deaths registered in the borough during the
year.
Acute Bronchitis.—To it were ascribed 149 deaths, of which 81
occurred among males and 68 among females. The deaths are 15 below the
return for 1912. They include 59 deaths of infants under twelve months old,
and 21 deaths in the Public Institutions of the Borough.
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