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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MAM, ISLINGTON,
FOR AUGUST, 1858.
No. XVII.
The month which terminated on August 28th, has been comparatively
healthy, and in great measure free from the ordinary malady of the season.
The mortality table annexed and the table representing the sickness among the
poor, both testify to this fact.
One hundred and sixty nine deaths of residents have been registered within
the parish. The mean mortality of August during the last two years was 177This
comparison will appear in a more favourable light when the great
increase of population is considered, and the fact, that deaths on which
Inquests have been held have this year been included in the month's return.
The deaths under three years of age, which last year amounted to 83, and in
1856 to 91, have this year numbered only 68.
Diseases of the zymotic class, taken together, have been fatal to 56 persons,
the mean of the last two years being 63. Diarrhoea, which occasioned 40
deaths in August 1856, and 30 last year, has only been fatal to 21 persons.
There have been two deaths referred to Cholera, one of an infant in Osborn
place, and the other of a female aged 63, who was seized while nursing a person
who had just been confined, at Rheidol terrace, St. Peters. She died in 35
hours. The atmosphere of the room that she occupied with her patient had
become so offensive, from the closure of all the windows and doors, that the
medical gentleman in attendance could scarcely breathe in it when called to
see the poor woman. There have only been three deaths attributable to fever
against 9 and 10 in August of the two previous years. One of the 7 deaths
from scarlet fever occurred in a house in James Street, Stroud's Vale, at which
the first death from fever in that locality took place last year. Every member
-of the family has suffered. As the house is arranged no medical man could be
astonished at its becoming a focus for infectious disease, or at a yearly
sacrifice of one or more of its inhabitants, being the penalty demanded for its
occupation. Epidemic sore throat (diphtheria) has carried off 8 children, five
of whom died in the East sub-district. At a house in Pierrepont row where a
drain had recently been broken in, and where there were other grievous
sanitary deficiencies, three deaths of children took place within eight days, viz.
on August 1st, a child, aged 2 years, of croup ; on August 3rd, another, aged