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12
REPORT
on th e
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON,
DURING FEBRUARY, 1858.
No. XI:
Both the sickness and mortality as registered in Islington have been less than
during January.
The deaths of 202 persons (exclusive of strangers dying in the Small-pox
and Fever Hospitals) were registered. The number last month was 224 ; in
February, last year, it was 189, which, considering our rapidly increasing population,
may be regarded as about equivalent to the mortality of the month just
closed. On comparing the ages of the persons who have died, it appears
that the reduction of mortality since January has taken place chiefly amongst
elderly persons.
The zymotic mortality has been somewhat higher, especially among children :
48 deaths were registered from diseases of this class; the number registered
in February, last year, was 32. Five deaths occurred from small-pox ; three
were of infants from 3 weeks to 18 months old, and one of a young man from
one of the wharves in Maiden Lane : all five were unvaccinated. They were
all but one taken ill in January, and died at periods at from 5 days to 4 weeks
from the time of seizure : all these cases occurred in the Thornhill District. I
mentioned the existence of small-pox there in my last report. The deaths from
hooping cough have risen from 9 to 16, of which 12 occurred in the East SubDistrict.
There have been but 2 deaths from fever. Two deaths are registered
as from erysipelas, and these again include a death from "pyaemia "* in the Great
Northern Hospital. Altogether three deaths have been registered from
* Infection of the blood with pus, or the matter of abscesses—a disease accompanied with
deep prostration.