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Islington 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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1913]
In Engalnd and Wales, in the ninety-six great towns, in the severi greatest towns, and
| England and Wales | 109 per 1,000 births | |
| 96 Great Towns | 117 ,, | |
| 145 Smaller Towns . | 112 „ | |
| Rural Districts | 96 ,, | |
| London | 105 ,, | |
| Birmingham | 129 ,, | |
| Liverpool | 131 ,, | |
| Manchester | 127 ,, | |
| Leeds | 133 ,, | |
| Bristol | 96 „ | |
| Sheffield | 128 „ | |
| The Encircling Boroughs. | Hornsey | 60 „ |
| Stoke Newington | 82 „ | |
| Hackney | 99 ,, | |
| Shoreditch | 155 ,, | |
| Finsbury | 138 ,, | |
| St. Pancras | 92 ,, | |
| The Encircling Boroughs | 109 ,, | |
MORTALITY FROM THE PRINCIPAL EPIDEMIC DISEASES
Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Fevers
(Typhus, Enteric and Continued) and Diarrhoeal Diseases.
Altogether 322 deaths from these diseases were registered, and they
represented an annual death-rate of 0-97 per 1,000 of the population, as
against 296 deaths, and a death-rate of 0-90 in 1912. The decrease in these
deaths is very noticeable, for since the quinquennium 1896-1900 their numbers
have regularly, year by year, become less, but somewhat like an ebb tide
which, while it gradually recedes, yet at times sends up one or more waves
which reach farther up the shore than those which have preceded them, only,
howevei, to be followed by others still lower. In these five years the annual
average was 810 per annum, but in the succeeding five years (1901-1905) it
was only 568, which was followed in the years 1906-1910 by one of 439. In
the next three years it fell to 407. This is a good record, and one on which
the Borough is to be congratulated.