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XI
15627
REPORT
ON THE
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON,
DURING JANUARY, 1858.
No. X.
The condition of the Public Health in Islington has somewhat deteriorated
since December: this remark does not, however, imply any increase in sickness
of the zymotic class.
Two hundred and twenty-four persons of all ages were registered as having
died during the past month, a number which presents nearly the same weekly
mean as in December. The weekly mean of deaths of children and young
persons has however fallen from 32 to 27. In the corresponding weeks of last
year the registered deaths were 195: if we add 10 to this number, as a correction
for an increased population, an excess of 19 deaths appears against the
present year. The deaths from diseases of the zymotic class have been less
numerous than in December, and four above the corrected mortality from these
diseases in January, 1857. There has been little alteration observed in the weekly
mortality from measles, but that from hooping cough has been reduced to nearly
one half. Six deaths from fever have been registered, one of which was of a
nurse in the London Fever Hospital. It is to be observed that five deaths
from erysipelas are recorded, among these is included a death from pyaemia
in the Great Northern Hospital. A death from "gangrenous inflammation of
the throat" is included among the three deaths from scarlatina. Two deaths
from "diphtherite" have also been registered: one of these was of a a male child
aged 4 years, in Essex Street, and the other a male aged 5 years, in St. Peter's
Street, "Within a week, beside the last mentioned patient, two others of the
same family died, one a brother, aged 3 years, of "croup," the other a sister,
of "enteritis." The house has been visited; it was found that several of the
communications with the drain were untrapped, and that there was also
an untrapped open privy which permitted the free escape of the sewer gases.