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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    76 1909] DIPHTHERIA. It is very satisfactory to find that only 31 deaths occurred during the year from this disease. This number is 80 less than the corrected annual average of the years 1885-1908 and is also 29 less than the return of the preceding year, The deaths were in the proportion of 0.09 per 1,000 of the population, as compared with a decennial rate of 0.21. The rate is below that of the County of London, in which it was 0.13. TI.e decrease in the deaths from so serious a disease must be a matter of congratulation, for it is not so long ago, in a smaller population, that instead of being numbered by tens, they were numbered by hundreds. Thus in 1891 there were 178 deaths; in 1893, 200, in 1894, 218 and in 1896, 257, while so recently as 1901 they numbered 134, and in 1902, 104. Table XLVII. Showing the Deaths from Diphtheria in the Sub-Districts for each Quarter. Sub-Districts. 1st Quarter. 2nd Quarter. 3rd Quarter. 4th Quarter. Whole Year. Tufnell 1 .. 1 1 3 Upper Holloway 1 •• • • 1 2 Tollington 2 1 1 4 Lower Holloway 2 • • 2 1 5 Highbury 1 1 .. 2 4 Barnsbury 2 2 .. 1 5 Islington, South East 5 1 •• 2 8 The Borough 12 6 4 9 31
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