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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[1908
Table XXI.
Classified Diseases. | Tufnell | Upper Holloway. | Tollington. | Lower Holloway. | Highbury. | Barnsbury. | South-East Islington. | The Borough. | ||||||||
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Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Kates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | Deaths. | Death Rates. | |
Miasmatic | 23 | 0.65 | 32 | 0.85 | 25 | 0.66 | 47 | 1.10 | 46 | 0.66 | 79 | 1 .44 | 74 | 0.94 | 326 | 0.91 |
Diarrhoeal | 7 | 019 | 9 | 0.24 | 7 | 0 .18 | 23 | 0.54 | 17 | 0.24 | 29 | 0.53 | 25 | 0. 32 | 117 | 0. 33 |
Constitutional | 95 | 2. 67 | 111 | 2.95 | 85 | 2.27 | 137 | 3.21 | 193 | 2.77 | 171 | 3. 12 | 256 | 3. 27 | 1,048 | 2.94 |
Developmental | 40 | 1. 12 | 33 | 0. 88 | 31 | 0.32 | 56 | 1.31 | 63 | 0 .90 | 77 | 1. 40 | 98 | 1.25 | 398 | 1. 12 |
Nervous | 28 | 0.79 | 23 | 0.61 | 22 | 0. 58 | 27 | 0.63 | 58 | 0. 83 | 52 | 0.95 | 60 | 0.76 | 270 | 0.76 |
Circulation | 55 | 1.55 | 77 | 2.05 | 50 | 1 .33 | 62 | 1.45 | 125 | 1.80 | 118 | 2.15 | 132 | 1.69 | 619 | 1.74 |
Respiration | 87 | 2. 45 | 96 | 256 | 82 | 2. 19 | 103 | 2.42 | 156 | 2.24 | 176 | 3. 21 | 227 | 2 .90 | 927 | 2. 60 |
Digestive Organs | 26 | 0. 73 | 37 | 0 .98 | 27 | 0.72 | 37 | 0. 87 | 53 | 0. 76 | 61 | 1.11 | 70 | 0.89 | 311 | 0. 87 |
Urinary System | 17 | 0.48 | 20 | 0.03 | 18 | 0.48 | 24 | 0.56 | 32 | 0 .46 | 29 | 0.53 | 40 | 0.51 | 180 | 0. 50 |
Violence | 9 | 0.25 | 19 | 0. 50 | 14 | 0.37 | 20 | 0. 47 | 26 | 0. 37 | 35 | 0. 64 | 46 | 0. 59 | 169 | 0.47 |
Ill.defined | 17 | 0. 48 | 20 | 0.53 | 15 | 0 .40 | 17 | 0. 39 | 22 | 0. 31 | 27 | 0.49 | 29 | 0.37 | 147 | 0.41 |
The heavy figures denote that these death.rates were the highest experienced in the several districts
during the year from the diseases mentioned.