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24
REPORT
ON THE
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR JANUARY, 1859.
No. XXII.
I am happy to be able to report that the mortality in Islington, which had
been excessive during November and December, fell, during the month which
has just expired, to about the mean of the same month in the two previous
years, allowance being made for increased population. Two hundred and
twenty deaths were registered, of which 108 were of persons under 20 years of
age, and 89 under 5 years. Scarlet fever and hooping cough have continued
to add to the mortality among children, and there have been four fatal cases of
epidemic sore throat, including diphtheria, two of which were in adults.
There have been only three deaths from fever. The mortality from respiratory
diseases did not reach half the number registered in December.
The table which relates to the sickness in the parish, which has hitherto
been confined to that among absolute paupers, is this month made to include
that in some other establishments in the parish. Mr. Whittingham, the resident
medical officer of the Holloway Dispensary, has kindly consented to continue
furnishing me with a weekly return of new cases treated in that institution and
its several^branches; and I am indebted for similar returns to Mr. Bradley,
the surgeon to the Pentonville Prison, and to Dr. Scurrah, the resident physician
to the London Fever Hospital. The table which I furnish this month
has reference to 1658 cases of sickness. A special interest attaches to the
column relating to the prison, inasmuch as the inmates are comfortably