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ISL 26
REPORT
ON THE
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON,
DURING APRIL, 1857
No. 1.
One Hundred and Ninety deaths of residents in Islington were registered
during the four weeks ending April 25th, and of these 100 were of persons
under 20 years of age, 46 being under 1 year. During the corresponding four
weeks of last year 198 deaths were registered. The mortality has thus been
less, notwithstanding the increase in population.
Of the total number of deaths, 37 were referred primarily to maladies of
the Zymotic class. The details appear in the annexed tables. In April last
year, the deaths from this class of diseases were 38. Scarlatina has occasioned
fewer deaths, Measles and Hooping Cough rather more than in the corresponding
weeks of last year.
The diseases of the Organs of Respiration occasioned 34 of the deaths
registered ; in April last year the number was 38.
The general sickness among the poor, as represented by the number of
new cases coming under the care of the Parochial Surgeons, has not been very
great. In April last year it was 689. In the 4 weeks just terminated, 661
new cases were admitted under treatment, of which 96 belonged to the
Zymotic class of diseases, and 131 were referred to Catarrh, Bronchitis or other
affections of the respiratory organs.
In April last year 20 cases of Measles, 6 of Scarlatina, and 11 of Hooping
Cough came under treatment. The two former diseases have been therefore
less prevalent during the past four weeks, while Hooping Cough has been
greatly more so. The number of cases of Fever, Erysipelas, and Diarrhoea
was nearly the same in the two corresponding periods.
EDWARD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
42, Myddelton Square,
May 4th, 1857.