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27
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR APRIL, 1859.
No. XXV.
The table of registered deaths for the month of April exhibits a continuance
of that low mortality which has been observed during the two previous
months. The number of deaths registered amounted to 182. The mean
of the three previous years, not making any correction for the larger number
of persons now resident in the parish, is 190 deaths. The weekly mortality
has been much the same as it was in March. The only zymotic disease
whose mortality is materially above the average is scarlet fever, the deaths
from which have again risen to twice the number that were registered in
March. Measles and hooping cough have occasioned comparatively few
deaths. It is also gratifying to be able to record that, for the first time
for fifteen months, there has not been a single death from diphtheria
returned. The case of epidemic sore throat mentioned in the table was
not diphtheritic; the throat affection was associated with erysipelas.
The table of sickness also shows some little decrease upon the numbers
of the previous month; and, as regards the ordinary zymotic diseases,
confirms the inference drawn from the table of mortality; as to the decline
of measles and hooping cough and the increase of scarlet fever amongst us.
The type of continued fever appears also to have changed, as the majority
of cases admitted into the Fever Hospital, during the month, were of true
typhus. The connection of this fever with over-crowding of poor habitations is