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25
REPORT
ON THE
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY ISLINGTON,
FOR JUNE, 1862.
No. LXIII.
The mean temperature of tho past month has been on the whole considerably
below the average, and with this there has been also a low death rate. The
registered mortality from all causes amounted to 238, a number which is 14
below the corrected mean mortality of the previous six years (252). Scarlet
fever, however, which appeared to have subsided as an epidemic, has again
been prevailing in certain parts of the parish, and the increase ia the
number of cases of measles has been very marked. There were thirteen
deaths from scarlet fever returned, which is about twice the corrected mean
for the previous six years. The deaths from this disease in the western half
of the parish all occurred in the immediate neighbourhood of the Caledonian
Eoad, in districts 6, 7, and 14. In the eastern half, two occurred in Upper
Hollo way, and four in districts to the south of the Lower Road, 27, 31,
and 32. The deaths from measles have risen from one to eight, which is
the mean mortality of this disease for the month. They took place in