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48
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR MARCH, 1864.
No. LXXX1V.
The mortality of the Parish has continued to be excessive during the
five weeks of March, but not from any remarkable amount of zymotic
disease. Atmospheric conditions appear still to have more to do with it
than anything else. The total number of deaths registered was 406,
which is 56 above our corrected average mortality for March in the
seven previous years. Of these 93 were due to diseases of the organs of
respiration, the corrected mean being 77; and 65 to diseases of the
nervous system, the corrected mean being 37. Fifteen of the latter
deaths were from apoplexy, which in former years has only occasioned
from 1 to 6 deaths in March ; and 14 from paralysis, which in former
years has only yielded from 3 to 8 deaths. Again, the diseases of the
tubercular class occasioned 71 deaths (51 being consumption), the corrected
mean being 54.
There were 21 deaths from measles and 18 from scarlet fever. The
latter number includes the death of a young surgeon, aged 22 years,
whose life was sacrificed to his devotion to the sick poor, while fulfilling
the duties of Assistant Resident Officer at the London Fever Hospital.
A fearful outbreak of infectious fever (typhus) has occurred in Mildmay
Avenue—some new houses lately erected on waste ground in the
rear of Mildmay Street—all of which might have been prevented had the
owner of the premises carried out what has been required of him by the
sanitary authorities of the Parish. As long ago as November, 1862, the
owner of four houses, now numbered 1,2,3 and 4, was complained against
on account of the unhealthy state of these premises, and notice was