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1907]
Mortality in the Wards.—The mortality in the several wards is fully
set out in Table XXL both for the four quarters and the whole year. It will
be noticed that four of them are also sub-registration districts, namely,
Tufnell, Upper Holloway, Tollington, and Lower Holloway, whose deaths
have already been discussed in the preceding pages. It remains only to
state that in the remaining seven wards the deaths and death-rates were
respectively:—
Highbury 442 deaths — 12.58 per 1,000 inhabitants
Mildmay 312 „ =12.41 „
Thornhill 591 „ =17.63 „
Barnsbury 358 „ =17.56 „
St. Mary's 254 „ =14.52 „
Canonbury 434 „ =12.99 „
St. Peter's 523 „ =15.85
The Ages at Death.—There was a decrease, when compared with
the proceeding ten yesrs, at all ages up to and including 45-55. At
the next age period there was an increase of 49 deaths, and at the period 65-75
of 95 deaths. At the period 75-85 they remained stationary, but above 85
there was an increase of 38. The decreased number of deaths between 0 and
55 amounted to 522, and the increased number over the latter age numbered
182. Vide Table XVIII,, page 33.
The Mortality of Islington compared with that of other places.—
It is satisfactory to note that the Islington death-rate of 14.6 per 1,000 compares
favourably with the general death-rate of England and Wales, which
was 15.0 per 1,000. It was also lower than the collective death-rate of the
76 great towns, which was 15.4 per 1,000, or a point above that of the
142 smaller towns, which was 14.5 per 1,000, but a point less than the deathrate
of England and Wales, less the 218 town districts, that is to say the
Rural Districts, where the mortality was in the ratio of 14.7 per 1,000 of their
inhabitants. The Islington death-rate was lower than that experienced in
Birmingham (16.2), Liverpool (19.0), Manchester (18.1), Leeds (15.3), and
Sheffield (17.1); while with respect to the neighbouring boroughs it is found
that the mortality of St. Pancras (15.0), Finsbury (18.7), and Shoreditch (20.5),
was higher than that of Islington, and that that of Hornsey (8.6), Stoke
Newington (11.5), and Hackney (13.6), was lower.