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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON.
FOR NOVEMBER, 1870.
No. CLXXXIII.
Considering the increase of our population, the 339 deaths recorded
in November would appear to correspond with our expectations.—In
the five previous years the numbers were 277, 333, 309, 318, and 396.
The public sickness too has on the whole been less than in 1868 (3,278)
and in 1869 (3,206.)
The two contagious or epidemic diseases which were reported as
spreading in October have advanced during November.—Small-pox
has furnished to our table of public sickness 35 cases against 31 last
month, still it is not yet so prevalent as it was in November, 1866, when
50 cases were recorded. Neaily all the pauper cases were sent to
Hospital. The deaths from small pox have been 13, the largest number
yet registered in any November. Small-pox has been chiefly observed
in the district of Upper Holloway, but towards the close of the month
a good many cases have occurred in Lower Holloway. There have been
81 cases of scarlet fever, against 72 last month. The fatal cases recorded
have been 65, a number which is 9 more than in November last year.
It is only during the month of November that I have been able to complete
the laborious investigation of the outbreak of Typhoid, which
occurred in Holloway during the summer. The facts I have succeeded
in gathering, prove conclusively that it was distributed by milk
proceeding from a particular dairy. Those families suffered first who
were exposed, in addition, to nuisances of local or domestic origin. This
startling result is pregnant with grave practical inferences, but it will
be convenient to deler entering upon details until the issue of my
Annual Hi port.