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7
REPORT
ON THE
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON,
DURING OCTOBER, 1857.
No. VII.
But little alteration has, on the whole, taken place in the public health in
Islington during the past month. The number of deaths registered, namely,
158, presenting the same weekly mean as those in September. The difference
in the tables of mortality lies in a diminution of the fatality of diarrhœa and
fever, and an increase of that from the various diseases of the chest. Nor
has the public health been so good as in October last year, when the total
mortality corrected for increased population, was 10 less, the zymotic mortality
4 less, and that from respiratory disease 12 less. As respects diarrhoea, it is to
be observed that while the deaths occasioned by it have fallen from 18 to 8 in
the month, those which occurred in October, last year, were but 4 in number.
Fever has happily declined, only 2 deaths from this cause having occurred,
against 13 in last month, and 7 in the corresponding weeks last year.
The number of cases of disease, entered by the parochial Surgeons, has
scarcely varied from the rate observed in September, when allowance is made for
the difference between 5 or 4 weeks, but has been less by 51 than in October last
year. The new cases of diarrhoea have fallen from 164 to 59, almost the precise
number attended in October last year. It is to be presumed, however, from the
difference in the mortality from this disease, that it is less mild in its character.
Diseases of the chest are now beginning to swell the applications for medical
relief.