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13
REPORT
on the
. SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON,
DURING MARCH 1858.
No. XII.
The deaths of 289 residents in Islington were recorded by the District Registrars
during the 5 weeks ending April the 3rd. Allowing for the difference
in the number of weeks embraced, 37 more deaths were registered than in
February, an excess attributable to the larger number of infants whose deaths
were referred to congenital debility, atrophy, and convulsions; and also to the
returns for the past fortnight including deaths in respect of which inquests had
been held during the quarter. The latter fact accounts for the 10 deaths from
violence noted in Table 1. The zymotic mortality has been considerably less
than in February. The deaths from tubercular diseases, and especially from
consumption, have been much more numerous. The mortality from hoopingcough,
though declining, has continued high : it is to be observed, however,
that no death from this disease was registered during the last week of the
month. Small-pox has carried off three adult persons and diphtherite has occasioned
two deaths of infants.
Compared with last year, the mortality of March has been high, especially
among children and among persons labouring under acute and chronic inflam
matory diseases of the respiratory organs, and among consumptive patients. The
number of deaths registered in the corresponding 5 weeks was 234, which