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26
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR MARCH, 1859.
No. XXIV.
The weekly mortality, as well as that from zymotic diseases, has varied little
during the past month. The general mortality is certainly low, 233 deaths
were registered. For March, 1857, the number was 234, and last year 289.
The deaths from zymotic diseases continue to form a larger proportion than
usual on account of the continued prevalence of measles, scarlet fever,
hooping cough, and epidemic sore throat. Of the last mentioned disease
including diphtheria, as many as 11 deaths were registered. There has
been some increase in the mortality of diseases of the lungs, but the number
continues lower than in March of the two previous years. It will be observed
that a fatal case of infantile cholera is recorded: it was a child of Irish
parents, residing at 12, Brand-street. I found the house greatly overcrowded,
the cubic space to each individual in the room occupied by the
family, amounting to only 143 feet per head. The water butt was rotten,
and the water so filthy as to be quite unfit for domestic use. The owner
was summoned to the Police Court under my certificate.
The increase of sickness both generally and among the parochial poor,
has chiefly been observed in the miscellaneous department. Small pox is