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50
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR MAY, 1864.
No. LXXXVI.
Two hundred and ninety-four deaths were registered in the four weeks
ending May 28th. This exceeds the corrected mean mortality of the corresponding
weeks in the last 8 years by 51; the excess, however, being
still due to the deaths registered under the class denominated "local
diseases." Diseases of the heart and lungs, with diseases of the nervous
system, have contributed to the' excess in a more marked degree than
any other maladies. Probably the remarkable weather we experienced
during the month was the immediate cause of these events. During the
first two weeks the temperature, which had been little above the average
temperature of 43 years, suddenly rose in the third week to be nearly 9
degrees above the average, with a daily range in each 24 hours of from
22 to 33 degrees, and then, on the 21st of the month, suddenly fell, after
a thunder storm of some severity, from the mean temperature of 65.2°
to a mean temperature of 52.3°. During the fourth week the mean
temperature was 2.6 degrees below the average of 43 years. The temperature
in the shade has been as high as 81°, and as low as 35°.
The cases of small pox on the Sickness Table have risen from 3 to 14.
All of these were persons attended by the Parochial Surgeons. Five of
them occurred at No. 3, Adelaide Square; a sixth case, which was fatal,
occurred ia the adjoining house; the others in Gordon Court,