Fifty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington.

  • Islington (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Fifty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    98 1909] Tubercular Diseases.—Tuberculosis of the Lungs or Phthisis, Tuberculosis of the Brain or Tubercular Meningitis, Tuberculosis of the Larynx, Tuberculosis of the Abdomen or Tabes Mesenterica, and General Tuberculosis. Tubercular diseases caused 582 deaths, which were equal to a death-rate of 1.65 per 1,000 of the population. Of these deaths 128 occurred among children under 5 years old and represented a death-rate of 3.39 per 1,000 living at this age. Phthisis or Tuberculosis of the Lungs.—This disease, commonly called consumption, was credited with 424 deaths, a decrease of 8 on the return of the preceding years, and of 12 on the return for 1907. It is, however, above that of the year 1906, but 105 below the corrected average of the pre ceding 15 years, the particulars respecting which are set out in the statement given below. Phthisis. Years. Deaths Death rates per 1,000 inhabitants. Proportion of Deaths from Phthisis per 100 Deaths from All Causes. Death rates from All Causes per 1,000 inhabitants. 1894 539 1.63 10.24 15.9 1895 568 1.70 9.86 17.2 1896 530 1.54 9.01 17.4 1897 520 1.54 9.64 16.0 1898 527 1.56 9.24 16.9 1899 583 1.73 9.26 18.7 1900 602 1.79 10.52 17.0 1901 545 1.62 10.16 15.9 1902 515 1.50 9.14 16.4 1903 492 1.45 10.16 14.3 1904 533 1.56 10.18 15.3 1905 438 1.28 8.84 14.4 1906 411 1.19 8.14 14.6 1907 436 1.26 8.58 14.6 1908 432 1.21 9.23 13.1 Corrected average 529 1.51 9.48 15.9 1909 424 1.21 8.62 14.0
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