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Islington 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]
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TABLE VI.
LIST OF STREETS, Etc. in which the Zymotic Mortality has exceeded one-fourth of the total mortality of
the Street; where the mortality from Tubercular Diseases has exceeded one-sixth; and the Infant mortality (under
5 years of age) one-half. Streets where only one death has occurred omitted.
The lower numbers in each fraction represents the total mortality.
Wherever the Population is stated, it is that ascertained at the time the Street was inspected.
By comparing the lower figure of any fraction with the Population, the Death-rate of the Street for the year may
be discovered.
The * against any Street indicates that its Death-rate exceeded 20 per 1000.
| Population, 1826-7. | Zymotic Mortality. | Mortality from Tubercular Diseases. | Mortality under 5 yrs. | Population, 1856-7. | Zymotic Mortality. | Mortality from Tubercular Diseases. | Mortality under 5 yrs. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ward 1. | Sum. | Per Room. | Sum. | Per Room. | |||||||
| Park Terrace, Tollington Park | John Terrace | 2/3 | |||||||||
| Devonshire Road | *Lowndes Place | 57 | 1.2 | 2/3 | |||||||
| Marylebone Street | Mildmay Place | 2/3 | |||||||||
| St. John's Villas | Pleasant Row, Holloway | 2/3 | |||||||||
| Mitford Road | Prince Edward Street | 2/3 | |||||||||
| Manor Road | Queen's Road | 3/5 | |||||||||
| Gordon Place | Ring Cross | 2/2 | |||||||||
| Ward 2. | Rutland Terrace | 2/2 | |||||||||
| Radnor Terrace | 3/4 | ||||||||||
| *Albert Square | 217 | 1.9 | Victoria Place, Holloway Road | 3/8 | |||||||
| Brandon Road, Belle Isle | Victoria Road | 2/3 | |||||||||
| *Chapel Place | 192 | 1.3 | Victoria Terrace, Hornsey Road | 3/2 | |||||||
| *Dorset Place | 67 | 1.5 | Woodland Terrace | 2/3 | |||||||
| George Street | Ward 4. | ||||||||||
| Hollingsworth Street | |||||||||||
| Hope Place West | Albert Terrace | 2/4 | .. | ||||||||
| Palmer Street | Albion Street | 3/5 | .. | ||||||||
| St. James' Road | *Bath Place | 271 | 1.2 | 2/7 | 5/7 | ||||||
| Steyman's Row | Bryan Street | 2/8 | 2/8 | .. | |||||||
| Upper Victoria Road | Canal Road | 2/2 | .. | ||||||||
| Cornwall Place | Caledonian Street | 3/8 | 3/8 | ||||||||
| Ellington Terrace | Caledonian Terrace | 2/6 | 2/6 | .. | |||||||
| George's Place | *Caroline Place | 307 | 1.0 | 4/10 | .. | ||||||
| Grove Street | Edward Square | 4/9 | 2/9 | 8/9 | |||||||
| Paradise Terrace | Cumming Street North | 2/7 | 4/7 | ||||||||
| Blundell Street | Gifford Street | 2/7 | 2/7 | 5/7 | |||||||
| Burnard Terrace | Gordland Terrace | 2/3 | 3/5 | ||||||||
| Dover Street | Haverford Terrace | 2/5 | .. | ||||||||
| Edward Terrace | Lavina Grove | 4/5 | 3/5 | ||||||||
| Frederick Street | London Street | 4/5 | 4/5 | ||||||||
| Holloway Place | Pembroke Cottages | 2/5 | |||||||||
| Loraine Place | * Randall's Cottages, Strouds Vale | 214 | 2.4 | 3/5 | 4/5 | ||||||
| Pentonville Cottages | *Regent Terrace | 135 | 1.5 | 4/7 | 7/5 | ||||||
| Swan Yard | Sidney Street | 7/13 | 7/13 | ||||||||
| Ward 3. | *Strouds Vale and SuttonGardens | 1345 | 1.5 | 21/35 | |||||||
| Twyford Street | 2/7 | ||||||||||
| Albany Place, Hornsey Road | 208 | 1.8 | Upper Freeling Street | 3/7 | 4/7 | ||||||
| Arundel Terrace | *Upper North Street | 204 | 1.4 | 3/5 | |||||||
| *Brand Street | 297 | 2.7 | Upper Gifford Street | 2/2 | 2/2 | ||||||
| Canterbury Road | William Street North | 3/9 | 8/9 | ||||||||
| *Caroline Place | 24 | 3.4 | Bingfied Street | 2/6 | |||||||
| Francis Place | Charlotte Street | 3/10 | 9/10 | ||||||||
| Highbury Crescent | Diddington Place | 2/5 | |||||||||
| Hawthorn Street | Edward Terrace | 2/3 | 2/3 | ||||||||
| King Henry Street | York Road | 2/8 | |||||||||
| *King's Road, Blackstock Lane | 68 | 1 | Rivers Street | 414 | 1.3 | 4/7 | |||||
| Myrtle Street, Highbury Vale | St. James' Terrace | 3/4 | |||||||||
| Park Place, Highbury Vale | Story Street | 3/9 | |||||||||
| Pleasant Row, Balls Pond | Thornhill Place | 2/4 | |||||||||
| Stanley Road | Bryan Mews | 2/2 | |||||||||
| King's Road, Balls Pond | *Canal Terrace | 189 | 1.2 | 5/7 | |||||||
| Mildmay Street | Clayton Street | 7/9 | |||||||||
| St. Paul's Terrace | Crescent Avenue | ||||||||||
| Arundel Road, Kingsland | Everilda Street | 3/4 | |||||||||
| Boleyn Place | Freeling Street | 8/11 | |||||||||
| John Street, Balls Pond | | Lyon Street Lyon Street | 3/3 | |||||||||