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39
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR MARCH, 1860.
No. XXXVI.
The mortality during March has continued high: 309 deaths were
registered. This gives, however, a mean of 62 weekly, which is less than the
weekly mean of February, which was 66. Of the corresponding weeks of
previous years it approaches nearest to that of 1858 (289), when pulmonary
affections were equally fatal, and when the deaths from this cause, under
20 years, were almost precisely the same number (50).
Comparing the mortality table with that of former years, we find that the
only zymotic disease which has been fatal in excess of the mean is scarlatina,
which occasioned 15 deaths against 4, 3, and 6 in former years. It is
satisfactory, however, to observe that the deaths from this disease are
undergoing a slow diminution. The weekly numbers were 3, 2, 4, 5, 1.
The deaths from hooping cough have been more numerous than in February;
but have not, even now, reached the average of March for the last 3 years.
From small-pox only one death has been registered, viz. :—
On March 29th, at Small-pox Hospital, from 14, Upper Bingfield Street, a Policeman on
Great Northern Railway, aged 23 years; duration 20 days. Two indifferent vaccine scars.
This corresponds with the lessened number of cases noted in my last report
as having been observed towards the latter part of February.