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REPORT
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SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR APRIL, 1864.
No. LXXXY.
The mortality of the Parish has continued to be excessive. The deaths
registered, excluding those of strangers in the Hospitals, amounted to
316. The mean number of deaths during April in the eight years previously
is about 220, but, for comparison with the mortality of this
month, it must be augmented by 4.½ as a correction necessitated by our
increased population. Thus raised to 273, the mortality of the past
month is found to exceed the mean of eight years by 43. The excess is
partly due to measles and cases returned as " Fever," but principally to
deaths from the so-called local diseases, especially diseases of the lungs.
Since my last Eeport three fresh cases of typhus have occurred at
3, Mildmay Avenue, two of them being new occupants of a room
vacated by a family that had had typhus. A girl from the house (one
of the Clarks) went to sleep with a Mrs. Woodman, at 16, Dorsetstreet,
and communicated fever to her, and this woman is now in the
Fever Hospital. A woman named Fox, whose children had typhus,
went on the 9th of April into the City-xoad Lying-in Hospital to be
confined, carrying typhus with her, and there she died of the disease.
An inquest was held by Mr. Humphreys, and a special verdict recorded
throwing censure upon Mr. Wm. Smith, the owner of the house, who
has also been fined at the Police-court for disobedience to the order of