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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Islington 1862
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]
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TABLE VII.
[arranged in each group in the order op highest mortality.]
| Group 1. | Group 2. | Group 3 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| District. | Mean Annual Deaths of Infants. | No. of Families to each Infant Death. | District. | Mean Annual Deaths of Infants. | No. of Families to each Infant Death. | District. | Mean Annual Deaths of Infants. | No. of Families to each Infant Death. |
| Mildmay | 18. | 28.3 | Freehold | 19. | 23. | Irish Courts | 18.3 | 11.8 |
| Shepherdess | 48. | 30.2 | Lr. Holloway. | 90.3 | 23.4 | BallsPond | 50. | 14.2 |
| Highbury Hill | 9.3 | 31.1 | Kingsland | 49.3 | 23.7 | Battle Bridge. | 36.6 | 14.9 |
| Barnsbury | 51.3 | 35.9 | Highbury Yale | 8.3 | 24.2 | Bemerton | 150. | 18.9 |
| Market | 21.3 | 35.9 | Church | 24. | 28.5 | Lower Road | 127.3 | 19.8 |
| Canonbury | 50.3 | 41.6 | Theberton | 41.3 | 29.4 | Belle Isle | 21.3 | 20.9 |
| Hornsey Road. | 11.3 | 43.8 | Rotherfield | 48.6 | 29.5 | Queen's Road. | 35. | 21. |
| Tuffnell | 14.3 | 49.6 | St. Thomas | 33.3 | 30.1 | Canal | 112. | 21.4 |
| Rydon | 12. | 52.9 | Palmer | 7. | 30.8 | Wht. Conduit. | 26. | 24.5 |
| Hornsey Rise | 3.3 | 86. | Highgate Hill | 19.6 | 34.6 | City Road | 24.6 | 30.6 |
| Duncan | 1.6 | 100. | St. Peter's | 42.6 | 35.3 | |||
| Trinity | 42.6 | 36.4 | ||||||
| Archway | 31. | 41.2 | ||||||
| Park Street | 13. | 44.4 | ||||||
| Whole Group | 241.3 | 38.2 | Whole Group | 470.3 | 29.9 | Whole Group | 601.8 | 19.6 |
*The First Group embraces the piore wealthy districts of which the numbers are not underlined on the
map.
The Second Group embraces those with a more mixed population, of which the numbers are singly underlined
on the map.
The Third Group embrace those with tt population more or less poor ahd negligent, doubly underlined
on the map.