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REPORT
ON THE
SANITARY CONDITION CF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON,
DURING MAY, 1857.
No. II.
The Public Health of Islington during the month of May has been
favourable.
The number of deaths registered was 213, viz.:—117 in the West, and 96
in the East sub-district. In the corresponding period of last year, the deaths
were 206, which, augmented by one-twentieth for a year's increase of population,
would be 216—three above the number registered this year. In the last
week of the month only 13 deaths were registered in the East sub-district.
Allowing also for the difference in the number of weeks included, the mortality
this month has been less by 24 than it would have been had the death-rate
of April continued.
The zymotic mortality (allowing again for increase of population) differed
little from last year's rate. Forty deaths from this class of diseases were
registered,—4 less than last month, or 15 less than if the same proportion of
deaths from zymotic diseaseshad been upheld. The occurrence of warmer weather
has been accompanied by a preponderance of the zymotic deaths in the East,
over those in the West sub-district. The deaths from diarrhoea have also
increased to 7, from 4 last month; measles, hooping-cough, and diarrhoea,
have all been more fatal than in May 1856, measles having then produced 5
deaths, hooping-cough 9, and diarrhoea only 3; typhus and scarlatina, however,
have been less fatal.
The mortality from diseases of the respiratory organs has also been
lowered from 34 in 4 weeks to 32 in 5 weeks; in the corresponding 5 weeks
of last year, 43 deaths were registered from this cause.