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31
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR AUGUST, 1859.
No. XXIX.
Although the number of deaths registered in the parish has fallen from 269
in the four weeks of July, to 213 in the four weeks ending the 27th of August,
indicating a more favourable condition of the public health in the district, the
mortality thus represented is still much above the corrected average of the three
preceding years. This continuance of a high mortality is partly due to the
registration of persons who died of illnesses contracted during July, and of
persons already the subjects of chronic disease, upon whom the excessively
hot weather produced a fatally prostrating effect. The mortality from diseases
of the zymotic class has happily undergone a reduction from 96 to 65. The
deaths from diarrhoea and other forms of bowel complaint, in July, were 56;
they have now fallen to 25, of which 10 were registered in the first week of
the month. It will be seen on reference to the subjoined table, that in 1856,
when the mean temperature of August was nearly the same as the month just
elapsed, the mortality from bowel complaints was 45—another illustration, I
imagine, of the advantage that is already beginning to appear, in Islington,
from the sanitary efforts of the last few years. The mean temperature of the
three previous Augusts was 64.1° ; that of the month under report, 64.5°. The
mean number of deaths from bowel complaints in the three previous Augusts
was 33; in the present year (when the number from the higher temperature