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Islington 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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[1913
| Sub-Districts. | 1st Quarter. | 2nd Quarter. | 3rd Quarter. | 4th Quarter. | Year. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths. | Death-rates. | Deaths. | Deat' -rates. | Deaths. | Death-rates. | Deaths. | Death-rates. | Deaths. | Death- rates. | |
| Tufnell | 2 | 0.24 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 0.11 | 3 | 0.09 |
| Upper Holloway | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 0.21 | .. | .. | 2 | 0.05 |
| Tollington | 2 | 0.27 | 1 | 0.13 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 0.10 |
| Lower Holloway | 2 | 0.21 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 0.19 | 4 | 010 |
| Highbury | 1 | 0.06 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 0.02 |
| Barnsbury | .. | .. | .•• | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Islington, South East | .. | .. | 2 | 0.10 | 3 | 0.16 | 1 | 0.05 | 6 | 0.08 |
| The Borough | 7 | 0.09 | 3 | 0.04 | 5 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 19 | 0.06 | |
DIPHTHERIA.
The 37 deaths which were registered were equal to a death-rate of Oil
per 1,000 of the population. These contrast with 38 in the preceding year.
The deaths are few if compared with those which obtained in years gone by.
Indeed, since 1902 there has been a notable drop, for whereas they then
numbered 104, they have never been more than 60 in any year since, while the
average in the quinquennial period 1906-1910 has been only 40. In 1906,
1907, 1909, 1910, 1912 and 1913 the deaths did not exceed 42, and varied
from 31 to 38. These figures are, however, far different from those which
obtained from 1891 to 1895, when the average was 182 per annum, and from
1896 to 1900, when it was 143, after which time there was a fall in 1901-1905
to 69. These low figures continued into the next quinquennium, when the
deaths averaged 40.
Considering how fatal Diphtheria is, especially in young life, it is very
gratifying to find such a marked decline in the fatality.
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