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as contrasted with 15.23; inTollington 10.56, as compared with 12.72; in Lower
Holloway 13.40, as against 15.79; in Highbury 11.72, as compared with
12 40; in Barnsbury 16.14, as contrasted with 17.43; and in Islington South
East 14.08, as contrasted with 15.40. From these figures we see that the
healthiest district during the year was Tollington, which was followed in
order by Highbury, Tufnell, Upper Holloway, Lower Holloway, Islington
South.East, and Barnsbury.
It is noticeable that Highbury, which usually occupies the first place
for salubrity, had in the year under consideration to take second place to
Tollington, which during the preceding seven years had held the second
position.
Mortality in the Wards.—The deaths and death.rates of the several
wards are set out in Table XV., which gives particulars for each quarter,
as well as for the year, where it is seen that Tollington Ward, with a death.
rate of 10.56, exhibits the lowest mortality. It is followed by Mildmay
(10.78), Tufnell (11.96), Highbury (12.73), Upper Holloway (12.91), Canon.
bury (13.20), Lower Holloway (13.40), St. Mary's (13.82), St. Peter's (14.21),
Thornhill (15.95), and Barnsbury (16.45). m
None of these rates can be considered high, notwithstanding the difference
that is exhibited between some of them—that between Tollington and
Barnsbury being as much as 5.89 per 1,000. The social position of the inhabitants,
as well as their occupations, will, however, account for this.
SEASONAL MORTALITY.
It is a singular fact that, with the exception of the third quarter, the
death.rates in the first, second, and fourth quarters of the year were the
lowest ever registered in each of them.
In the first quarter the deaths numbered 1,387, or 218 less than the
corrected average of the preceding 10 years, and represented an annual death.
rate of 15.89 per 1,000, as compared with a mean decennial rate of 18.39.
It was the lowest rate with one exception ever recorded in the Borough at
any similar period of the year. In 1905 the death.rate was 15.35.
In the second quarter 1,010 deaths were registered, a number which is
251 below the corrected average of the second quarter 1898.1907, and were
equal to an annual death.rate of 11.57 per 1,000, as against a decennial rate
of 14.45 per 1,000. This death.rate has the distinction of being the lowest
ever recorded in Islington during the second quarter of the year.