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23
REPORT
OF THE
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON
FOR APRIL, 1862.
No. LXI.
The public health as measured by the mortality, has been better
even than it was in the month of March. The number of deaths
registered was 212, which is 34 below the corrected average mortality
of April for the previous six years (246).
The mortality from Scarlatina has continued high, and the number
of cases occurring among the poor does not appear to be materially
fewer. Of the 16 deaths registered, four occurred (two in one family),
in sanitary district No. 4, three (two in one house) in No. 6, and two
in No. 14, in the western half of the Parish; and one in Nos. 17, 25,
26, and two in No. 28 and 30, in the eastern half. The weekly
deaths were 1, 5, 5, 5.
The mortality from Hooping Cough has been slowly increasing for
some months; but it has not yet attained by 3, the corrected average
for the last six years.
Ten deaths have been registered from fever. Eight of these persons
were adults, suffering from Typhus; and of these, four had been sent
from the Workhouse, and one was a nurse in the Hospital. The
Fever Hospital is still full of Typhus cases, and the mortality is consequently
high.
EDWARD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Vestry Offices,
May 7th, 1862.