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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 1863
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]
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The total corrected by subtracting the births in the 53rd week, gives 5,786 births
for comparison with last year. If, then, our population has increased by 5 per cent.,
as estimated, it must chiefly have been by immigration from other places—a circumstance
which, as I have formerly shown (Fifth Annual Report, 1860), tends to augment
our death rate. It is again observable that, contrary to the ordinary rule, the number
of female births exceeded that of the males, although very slightly.
The number of persons who sought medical relief from the Parochial Surgeons,
and at the Institutions from which I receive regular returns, was 32,426.
DISTRICT MORTALITY.
The death rate as calculated for all, but principally for these, will be more or less considerably in excess of the truth—how much in excess any one of you can judge as closely as I can.
| Group 1. | Group 2. | Group 3. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Districts. | Death rate per 1000. | Districts. | Death rate per 1000. | Districts. | Death rate per 1000. | |||
| 1863 | 1862 | 1863 | 1862 | 1863 | 1862 | |||
| *Mildmay | 28.0 | 25.7 | *Highgate Hill | 35.6 | 17.8 | Irish Courts | 42.2 | 27.8 |
| *Shepherdess | 26.2 | 19.5 | *Lr.Holloway. | 31.7 | 20.8 | *Queen's Road | 37.9 | 22.6 |
| *Market | 19.2 | 17.1 | *Freehold | 31.4 | 16.2 | Belle Isle | 31.0 | 17.1 |
| Barnsbury | 18.6 | 15.8 | St. Thomas | 24.9 | 17.4 | Balls Road | 30.9 | 28.6 |
| *Hornsey Road | 18.6 | 21.4 | Kingsland | 24.1 | 15.1 | Lower Road | 30.0 | 21.8 |
| Canonbury | 16.6 | 15.1 | *Archway | 24.0 | 15.1 | *Bemerton | 27.4 | 22.3 |
| *Tuffnell | 15.3 | 11.0 | Church | 23.4 | 22.7 | Battle Bridge | 27.2 | 25.8 |
| *ydon | 15.0 | 9.7 | Rotherfield | 21.4 | 16.3 | WhiteConduit | 25.7 | 17.1 |
| Highbury Hill | 14.3 | 8.0 | St. Peter's | 20.1 | 12.6 | City Road | 20.4 | 14.7 |
| *Hornsey Rise. | 13.4 | 9.1 | Park Street | 19.3 | 13.8 | |||
| Duncan | 6.1 | 7.3 | Palmer | 18.8 | 8.8 | |||
| Theberton | 17.8 | 15.3 | ||||||
| Trinity | 17.6 | 19.7 | ||||||
| HighburyVale | 15.5 | 16.5 | ||||||
| Mean of Group | 18.4 | 15.2 | Mean of Group | 23.9 | 16.9 | Mean of Group | 27.3 | 21.5 |
The First Group embraces the more 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 embraces those with a population more or less poor and negligent, doubly underlined on
the map.