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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOE, SEPTEMBER, 1870.
No. CLXXXI.
The general mortality in the Parish during September, viz.: 328
deaths, has been unusually small: when the increase in population is
kept in mind, it has been lower than that of any September since 1862.
Nor can it be said that the public sickness on the whole has been excessive.
Kegarding, however, the sickness and mortality more in detail, it
is to be observed that scarlet fever has been advancing, as it so often does
at this season of the year, and threatens us with an autumnal epidemic;
and that the diseases grouped together under the term 'continued fever,'
have been unusually prevalent, and have also made an unusually
strong mark upon our mortuary table. In the records of public
sickness forwarded to me, the diseases thus grouped are not
distinguished; but from the inquiries I have made, it appears that
while some of these were decided cases of typhoid, a good many
were attacks of mild fever probably also of an enteric character.
The 18 deaths recorded were, with the exception perhaps of two,
cases of typhoid; and of the 16 thus registered, six were the result of
the localized outbreak which I mentioned in my last Report. Of the
remainder, distributed in various parts of the Parish, there were two or
three deaths of persons who brought the disease with them from the
country, or from situations in the city where they were in domestic
service. With respect to the Holloway outbreak of typhoid, which
has attracted a great deal of attention in tbe neighbourhood, it is satisfactory
to know that it has been at an end for some weeks, so far as
the invasion of fresh bouses is concerned, and that I have spared no
pr.ins in making a searching inquiry into its origin. I believe, with
the assistance of the private practitioners in the neighbourhood, to