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40
REPORT
ON THE
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR APRIL, 1860.
No. XXXVII.
April has been an unusually cold month. During each of the three latter
weeks, the temperature has been below the average. The mean temperature
of the second week was thus 4.5 degrees below the average of 43 years; the
third week 4, and on some days 7 or 9 degrees below it, and the fourth week
6'6 degrees, and on some days 8 and 11 degrees below it. During the third
and fourth weeks the wind was in the N.E. Associated with all this there
has been a high mortality, 263 deaths having been registered, the average
(uncorrected for population) of the previous four years being 188. The
excess has taken place among infants and old persons : of the 263 deaths, 143
occurred in persons under 20 years of age, (68 under one year and 38 between
one and two years of age) and 67 over 60 years of age. Of the latter, 11 were
above 80 years, and one of them a female was aged 92 years. The diseases
which have been more than usually fatal are pulmonary diseases, consumption
and diseases of the nervous system.
Of the zymotic diseases measles alone has exhibited a tendency to increase.
There were only six deaths from Scarlet fever registered and two from Smallpox,
viz.:—
On April 4th, at 6, Britannia Row, daughter of a Carman, Small-pox, duration 3 weeks,
unvaccinated.
On April 17th, at 6, Henry Place, daughter of a Bricklayer's Labourer, Small-pox, duration
6 days.
There were several other cases in this little house,