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38
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR JUNE, 1863.
No. LXXV.
The tables of sickness and mortality during the five weeks of June continue to
exhibit a low condition of the public health. The registered deaths amounted to
320, the mean mortality of seven previous years, corrected for an increased population,
being only 262. We have here, then, 58 deaths registered over and above what
has been usual at this season. Twenty-three of these are readily accounted for.
They were deaths from Small-pox. It is the largest monthly number I have yet
had to record. Up to the present time the epidemic has cost us the lives of 85
persons, and the permanent disfigurement of a much larger number. It is a serious
thing to enquire who is responsible for the imperfect vaccination observed in the
large majority of these cases.
The number of new cases of Small-pox entered during the five weeks upon the
books of the Parochial Officers and of the two Dispensaries is 105. If the disease
had prevailed as it did in May, the number would have amounted to 167, so that
it has clearly been declining amongst us during the month. The same fact seems
demonstrated by the weekly numbers, which were 21, 23, 23, 21, 17; but these
numbers are oidy less high than the weekly, numbers in May. The greater proportion
of these occurred in the neighbourhood of the Queen's-road, Caledonian-road,
in Brand-street, in the streets near the commencement of the Back-road, Kingsland,
and in Lower Holloway. The mortality, being higher than any I have yet recorded,
corresponds with the greatest prevalence of the disease in the present month. The
weekly deaths registered were 8, 7, 5, 2, 1, the largest number thus being registered
early in June. They occurred as follows :—
At 3, Market-place, Upper Holloway, Daughter of a Waiter, aged 19 months.
From 44, Payne-street, a girl aged 7 years ..
From 7, "Wellington-place, a Carman, aged 29 years
At 29, Shepperton-cottagcs, a Miller, aged 36 years
At 10, Albert-place, Queen's-road, a Stone Sawyer, aged 22 years
At a hut in rear of 13 Brand-street, Daughter of a Journeyman Bricklayer
aged on9 year
At 2, Hornsey-road. Son of a Railway Platelayer, aged 3 years
At 0, Queen's-road, Son of a Brickmaker, aged 3 years
At 26, Brunswick-road, Upper Holloway, Daughter of a Ground Labourer,
aged 14 months
Unvaccinated.
(Died in S. P. Ilosp.)
Malignant S I'.
One indifferent cicatrix.
{Died in S. P. Ilosp.)
Unvaccinated.
Untaccinated
Unvaccinated.
Unvaccinatcd,
Unvaccinated.