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45
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR SEPTEMBER, 1860.
No. XLII.
The mean weekly mortality of the month just closed has been the same as
in August. Two hundred and twenty deaths have been registered, the mean
mortality for the previous four years, (un-corrected for increase of population),
being 216.
The most remarkable feature in the table is the unusual number of 21 young
infants whose deaths were registered under the terms "atrophy," "marasmus,"
or" inanition," the highest number I have hitherto recorded in any month
being 14. Two-thirds of these deaths occurred in the east sub-district, and
only three were of illegitimate children.
The mortality of diseases of the zymotic class amounts to 54, the un-corrected
mean of four years being 67. Diarrhoea produced 15 deaths against a mean
of about 23. Seven deaths were registered as from diphtheria. In September
last year 11 deaths were registered from this affection, and only one in each
of the succeeding months.