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43
REPORT
on tHE
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR JULY, 1860.
No. XL.
The temperature has continued comparatively low throughout the month
of July. According to the observations at Greenwich, the weekly mean
temperature of the first week of the month was 3 degrees below the mean of
43 years, of the second, 4.3 degrees, of the third, 2.6 degrees, and of the
fourth, 6 3 degrees below the mean.
The number of deaths of residents registered was 170; the un-corrected
mean of the previous four years being 209. The number of deaths from
zymotic diseases was 43 against a mean of 74; amongst these there have been
9 deaths from measles, 6 from scarlet-fever, and 2 from small-pox. There
have only been 6 fatal cases of diarrhoea, and 1 of dysentery.
The injurious influence of the effluvia from animal excretions upon the
course of disease, has again been illustrated in one of the best houses in the
St. Paul's Road, where the nursery was situated over a filthy stable, (belonging
to the landlord of the house,) the offensive smell from which was perceptible
before entering the room. Of a family consisting of father, mother, and three
children, the father is now alone living, one child having died from abscess,
and the mother and two other children of scarlet fever. Fatal cases of typhoid
fever also have originated in two adjoining houses in Albany Place, opposite to
which was a very offensive gully, to which I have directed the attention of
your Surveyor of Sewers.
The numbers of cases of sickness admitted under charitable treatment during
the month has been small: excluding the cases at the Islington Dispensary,
(which were not last year enumerated), they amount to 1213, for comparison