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7
DEATHS.
In 1876, 4,789 deaths were registered in the parish of Islington.
Our death rate, therefore, for the year was 18.9 per 1,000; the death
rate of the United Kingdom being 21.0 per 1,000.
In 1877, 4,838 deaths were recorded, making our death rate for
the year 18.5 per 1,000, the death rate of the United Kingdom
being 19.97 per 1,000.
Of the 4,789 deaths in 1876, 2,440 were males and 2,349 were
females; 2,080 of the deaths occurred in the western district (of
which 1,075 were males,) and 2,709 in the eastern (of which
number 1,365 were males.)
Of the 4,838 deaths in 1877, 2,395 were males, and 2,443 were
females; 2,105 of the deaths occurred in the western district (of
which number 1,128 were males,) and 2,733 in the eastern, 1,267
being males.

CAUSES OF DEATH.
These are set forth in detail in Tables Nos. VIII. and XI., to
which I refer you. I have already given in full the history of the
small-pox epidemic for 59 weeks up to the end of October, 1877
with tables and diagram relating to 1,000 cases of sickness and to
181 deaths. This is inserted at the end of this Report, and I need
not do more than take up the story where I left it.
In continuation, I append the following table, showing the
additional 653 cases of small-pox (including 115 deaths), as recorded
week by week from the beginning of November 1877, to the end of
the second week in September 1878, a period of 46 weeks.