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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MAM, ISLINGTON,
FOR FEBRUARY, 1870.
No. CLXXIV.
Three hundred and seventy-four deaths of residents were registered in
the Parish during the four weeks ending February 26th. As the period
of the new census approaches, less and less reliance is to be placed upon
any calculations based upon the annual increase of our population
between 1851 and 1861. But assuming no alteration to have taken
place in the ratio of increase, we may compare this mortality with 388
deaths, the corrected mean of the previous ten years for the corresponding
period of the year. The most serious item in the mortality is the
115 deaths from bronchitis, pneumonia, and allied chest affections, a
mortality due in great measure to the severe cold experienced in the
middle of the month. In the second week of the month the mean
temperature at Greenwich is stated to have been 6.3 degrees,
and in the third week 7.5 degrees below the average of 50 years.
The total number of new cases of bronchial affections, pleurisy, and
pneumonia recorded in the public practice was 1008, the highest in any
former February being 731 last year. It is observable that both in this
month and in January we have recorded a very unusual number of
cases of diarrhoea, in January 111 and now 102, and that in both
instances a large proportion happened in the Pentonville Convict Prison.
A slight increase in the number of cases of scarlet fever has been
observed over the number recorded in January. The number of deaths
registered, however, has fallen from 41 to 27. We may regard the
epidemic as dying out. There have been four cases of relapsing fever,
three in a family formerly reported at 8, Rose and Crown Court, and one of
a girl in Rosemary Street, who was engaged in service in the Parish.
There has been no fresh case since February 9th.