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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON,
DURING DECEMBER, 1857.
No. IX.
The registered mortality of December has been 286; but this includes 9
deaths respecting which Inquests were held in October and November. Allowing,
however, for these, the weekly mortality has been higher than that of last
month. The deaths registered in the corresponding five weeks of last year
were 249.' Raising this viz.: to 261 for comparison with the present return,
we find that the deaths have this year presented an excess over last year of 25,
The excess principally refers to the deaths in the early periods of life: the
deaths under 20 years of age in December last year were 113; this year they
have been 158. The deaths from zymotic diseases have risen to 62, of which
38 occurred in the West sub-district, where measles and hooping-cough have
together occasioned 21 deaths. The deaths from pulmonary diseases (exclusive
of phthisis) are lessened by one-fifth, and are less by ten than they were
in December last year. Two deaths have been specially referred to influenza.
Nine deaths have been registered as from fever, six in the West, and three
in the East sub-district. The unusual circumstance deserves to be noted, that
this month the deaths in the East sub-district have been altogether more
numerous than in the West, while the zymotic mortality has been less, and
that from tubercular diseases higher. The deaths from diseases of the organs
of respiration have been, during November and December, about equal in the
two sub-districts.
The entries of new cases by the Parochial Surgeons have fallen from 863
in the four weeks of November to 788 in the five weeks just terminated. The
latter, when allowance is made for our augmenting population, is nearly the
same number as was entered in the corresponding weeks of last year. Of the
ordinary zymotic diseases, it appears from the Table that hooping-cough still
continues prevalent, but a reduced number of cases of measles has been