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Figure 1 .
Indices of deprivation1 score quartiles for the London health authority of Camden and Islington. Much of the population served by the Whittington Hospital Trust comes from those wards with the two highest social deprivation quartile ratings. Reproduced with permission from Dr Robert Kyffin, Camden and Islington Health Authority.
Figure 2 .
An early ECG being performed, circa 1905.4 Alongside are listed the features of a modern ECG service, nearly 100 years later.
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