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Islington 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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[1908

Table XXI. Showing the Deaths and Death-rates from eleven Classified Diseases in the Sub-Districts and in the Borough.

Classified Diseases.TufnellUpper Holloway.Tollington.Lower Holloway.Highbury.Barnsbury.South-East Islington.The Borough.
Deaths.Death Rates.Deaths.Death Rates.Deaths.Death Rates.Deaths.Death Kates.Deaths.Death Rates.Deaths.Death Rates.Deaths.Death Rates.Deaths.Death Rates.
Miasmatic230.65320.85250.66471.10460.66791 .44740.943260.91
Diarrhoeal701990.2470 .18230.54170.24290.53250. 321170. 33
Constitutional952. 671112.95852.271373.211932.771713. 122563. 271,0482.94
Developmental401. 12330. 88310.32561.31630 .90771. 40981.253981. 12
Nervous280.79230.61220. 58270.63580. 83520.95600.762700.76
Circulation551.55772.05501 .33621.451251.801182.151321.696191.74
Respiration872. 4596256822. 191032.421562.241763. 212272 .909272. 60
Digestive Organs260. 73370 .98270.72370. 87530. 76611.11700.893110. 87
Urinary System170.48200.03180.48240.56320 .46290.53400.511800. 50
Violence90.25190. 50140.37200. 47260. 37350. 64460. 591690.47
Ill.defined170. 48200.53150 .40170. 39220. 31270.49290.371470.41

The heavy figures denote that these death.rates were the highest experienced in the several districts
during the year from the diseases mentioned.