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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Table XX.
Classified Diseases. | Tufnell | Upper Holloway. | Tollington. | Lower Holloway. | Highbury. | Bainsbury | Islington. South East. | 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 | 23 | 0.66 | 41 | 1.06 | 34 | 1.12 | 45 | 1.14 | 42 | 0.72 | 39 | 0.72 | 60 | 0.78 | 284 | 0.85 |
Diarrhœal | 9 | 0.26 | 13 | 0.33 | 3 | 0.09 | 25 | 0.63 | 13 | 0.22 | 19 | 0.35 | 17 | 0.22 | 99 | 0.29 |
Constitutional | 105 | 3.04 | 97 | 2.51 | 93 | 3.06 | 137 | 3.46 | 183 | 3.13 | 199 | 218 | 2.84 | 1,032 | 3.11 | |
Developmental | 47 | 1.36 | 57 | 1.48 | 54 | 1.78 | 48 | 1.21 | 64 | 1.10 | 84 | 1.56 | 114 | 1.49 | 468 | 1.41 |
Nervous | 35 | 1.01 | 52 | 1.35 | 40 | 1.32 | 37 | 0.93 | 68 | 1.16 | 66 | 1.23 | 78 | 1.02 | 376 | 1.13 |
Circulation | 79 | 2.28 | 89 | 2.30 | 70 | 2.30 | 75 | 1.89 | 131 | 2.24 | 111 | 2.07 | 178 | 2.32 | 733 | 2.21 |
Respiration | 84 | 2.43 | 110 | 2.85 | 79 | 2.60 | 114 | 2.88 | 161 | 2.76 | 174 | 3.24 | 236 | 3.08 | 958 | 2.89 |
Digestive Organs | 49 | 49 | 1.27 | 37 | 1.22 | 35 | 0.88 | 48 | 0.82 | 71 | 1.32 | 73 | 0.95 | 362 | 1.09 | |
Urinary System | 24 | 0.69 | 27 | 0.70 | 17 | 0.56 | 27 | 0.68 | 32 | 0.55 | 40 | 0.74 | 46 | 0.60 | 213 | 0.64 |
Violence | 12 | 0.35 | 22 | 0.57 | 9 | 0.03 | 26 | 0.65 | 26 | 0.44 | 42 | 0.78 | 58 | 0.76 | 195 | 0.59 |
Ill-defined | 14 | 0.40 | 20 | 0.52 | 14 | 0.04 | 29 | 19 | 0.32 | 31 | 0.58 | 22 | 0.28 | 149 | 0.45 |
The heavy figures denote that these death-rates were the highest experienced in the several districts
during the year from the diseases mentioned.