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14
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR APRIL 1858.
No. XIII.
During the four weeks which ended on May 1st, the deaths registered in
Islington amounted to 197, almost the precise number registered in 1856, notwithstanding
the great increase which the population of the parish is yearly
undergoing. It is under the corrected mean mortality of the last two years,
and less by 35 than it would have been at the rate of mortality observed last
month.
The zymotic class of diseases has, however, been unusually busy among our
residents, having carried off 48 persons, of which 38 were children under 5 years
of age. The greater number of zymotic deaths—viz. 28—occurred in the East
Sub district. Measles and hooping-cough, in particular, have both been more
fatal than they were either last month or in the corresponding period of the two
last years. There have been 2 deaths attributed to diarrhoea, and 6 to fever.
In neither of these instances has the mean of the last two years been exceeded.
One of the deaths from fever took place in one of the only two houses in
Pulteney-terrace which had been exempted from the orders of the Sanitary
Committee for improvement in drainage, &c., in 1856. Two deaths from
diphtheria were registered: in one instance it was stated as the primary
affection; in the other, it succeeded upon another disease. Pulmonary
diseases, although less fatal than in March, have continued to supply more
than the customary number of deaths.