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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR MAY 1858.
No. XIV.
The number of persons whose deaths have been registered in Islington during
the past month is 163. In the corresponding weeks of 1856 and 1857 the
number was 173, and this in a population considerably smaller than at present;
neither has the mortality been so high by 34 as it was in April. Of the 163
deaths 95 took place under 20 years of age and of these 40 in the first twelvemonths
of life.
The deaths from diseases of the zymotic class amounted to 47 ; this is considerably
above the mean of the last two years. Twelve deaths occurred from
measles, and 19 from hooping cough, both of which diseases, as will appear
from the books of the Parochial Surgeons, having prevailed more extensively
than in the May of the two previous years. On the other hand, it is satisfactory
to observe that both diarrhcea and continued fever have occasioned but lew
deaths. it will be seen on reference to the table that 4 deaths from diphtheria aspecific
form of sore throat,) are registered; a fifth death might have been included:
of these, three occurred in one family, residing at 3, Norfolk Place, Lower Road,
viz.: on May 9th, a little girl aged 10 years; on May 14th, her sister, aged 14
years ; and on May 18th, their mother. All of these suffered from the disease
in its most malignant form. The first that died was taken ill on May 3rd, after
returning home from visiting a female cousin in the City Road, who was herself
seized with the same disease at about the same time, but had only a slight attack
and recovered. On May 11th, the second of the sisters and the mother were attacked,
the former died after three days illness, the mother after about seven
days illness. Whatever the mode in which the first of the sisters that died