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Islington 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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1913]
and 5.30 in Lower Holloway. The major part of the notifications related
to persons suffering from phthisis, of which there were 1,303, as against 380
notifications of other forms of tuberculosis.
The following statement gives the particulars for each Sub-registration District.
| Sub-Regif tration Districts. | Pulnonary Phthisis. | Other Forms of Tuberculosis | Grand Totals. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females. | Total. | Attack Kate | Males. | Femeles. | Total. | Attack Rate. | Males & Females | Attack Rates | |
| Tufnell | 58 | 48 | 106 | 3.07 | 18 | 14 | 32 | 0.92 | 138 | 3.99 |
| Upper Holloway | 98 | 61 | 159 | 4.12 | 17 | 14 | 31 | 0.80 | 190 | 4.92 |
| Tollington | 48 | 37 | 85 | 2.80 | 23 | 15 | 38 | 1.25 | 123 | 4.05 |
| Lower Holloway | 97 | 63 | 160 | 4.04 | 29 | 21 | 50 | 1.26 | 210 | 5.30 |
| Highbury | 105 | 70 | 175 | 3.00 | 29 | 24 | 53 | 0.90 | 228 | 3.90 |
| Barnsbury | 150 | 102 | 252 | 4.69 | 44 | 38 | 82 | 1.53 | 334 | 6.22 |
| South East Islington | 220 | 146 | 366 | 4.77 | 46 | 48 | 94 | 1.23 | 460 | 6.00 |
| 776 | 527 | 1303 | 3.93 | 206 | 174 | 380 | 1.14 | 1683 | 5.07 | |
It is wortny of observation that the two districts in which the incidence of
the disease was heaviest are also the two in which a greater number of
people live on each of their acres (vide Table II.). The better way to
understand rightly where the disease was most prevalent is to study the small
map which faces this page. It has been produced from a photograph of a
large map on which black and white pins were fixed as near as possible to the
positions of the house in which the teases of tuberculosis occurred. The
black pins represent the cases of pulmonary phthisis and the white those of
other forms of the disease. Here it is seen at a glance that the dark patches
are exactly those parts of the Borough where the working classes for the most
part live. And where they live the houses are usually old, and the older the
houses are, the greater the number of families are to be fourd living in them ;
and the greater the number of families, the poorer are the people; and the
poorer the people, the greater the insufficiency of clothing, and the greater
the lack of air and light, because the ill-fitting windows are screened to keep
out the draughts; and the greater the lack of air and light, the greater the