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Islington 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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[1907
VENEREAL DISEASES.
Syphilis and Gonorrhoea between them were responsible for the death of
16 persons, of whom 12 were males and 4 were females. Among these deaths
were included those of 5 children under a year old ; but none between the ages
of 1 and 5, while the remaining deaths were those of adults.
The number of deaths during each year since
| Acute. | Chronic. | Total | Males. | Females. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 27 | 7 | |||
| 9 | 38 | 18 | |||
| 3 | 23 | 13 | 13 | ||
| 4 | |||||
| 1905 | 4 | 25 | 9 | 16 | |
| 3 | 13 | 16 | 5 | 11 | |
| 4 | |||||
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The actual number of deaths in the public institutions of Islington
amounted to 1,675, of which, however, 593 were those of persons who had
come to Islington for treatment, and, therefore, are not included in the
mortality returns of the Borough. This return is the largest that has hitherto
been known, and is 178 more than the average of the preceding 10 years.
There were in addition 656 persons, citizens of the Borough, who died in
Institutions outside the Borough, so that the gross number of deaths of
all persons in Institutions within the Borough and of Islingtonians outside the
Borough was 2,331.
Within the Borough.—The number of deaths in local Institutions
numbered 1,675, of which 1,082 were those of inhabitants, the remaining 593
being of persons brought hither for treatment either in the Holborn Infirmary