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44
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION 0F SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR AUGUST, 1860.
No. XLI.
We have continued to experience a low mortality. The number of deaths
of residents registered during the month being 177, viz.: 111 in the west and
66 in the east sub-district. The un-corrected mean of the previous four
years is 184.
The deaths from diseases of the zymotic class amounted to 49—the mean
for August for the previous four years being 62. There were 24 deaths from
diarrhoea and dysentery, 21 of which were of children under three years of
age. This number is small for August. There have also been registered the
deaths of two persons from cholera. One of these persons was the widow of a
publican, and died at the age of 75 years from an attack of ordinary bilious
cholera. The other person was a warehouseman, aged 46, engaged all day in
the city, but residing at 68, Havelock Street ; he was suddenly seized shortly
after midnight, and when visited about five a.m. by his medical attendant, the
symptoms of collapse were becoming apparent, and he died on the 15th, after
47 hours illness. Prior to his seizure, when he came home, apparently in his
usual health, he had complained to bis wife of a bad smell that "he could not
get out of his nose all day," and which had emanated from the grating of a
sewer in Goswell Street Road, over which he had unwittingly stood for several
minutes on his way to business in the morning, while observing some occurrences
in the street. I have been able to discover nothing about the house he
occupied which could bear any relation of cause to his attack.