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26
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY ISLINGTON,
FOR JULY, 1862.
No. LXIV.
We have passed through another comparatively cool month, the mean
temperature of each week having been from 4.6 to 1.5 degrees below the
average for 43 years (Greenwich). Although ten more deaths per week have
occurred in the parish during the month than occurred in June, the registered
mortality, 231, is still 5 below the corrected mean of the previous six years.
In my last Report I mentioned the prevalence of measles, principally in
the very poor districts of the parish. This, which the sickness table then
exhibited, now appears upon the table of mortality, the registered deaths
having risen from 8 in five weeks to 17 in four weeks, viz., 6 in the first
week, 2 in the second, 5 in the third, and 4 in the fourth. The registered
mortality from measles in July of the six previous years was 4, 8, 10, 0, 9, 7.
The districts in which they occurred were as follows, viz., 1 in No. 3, 3 in
No. 6, 1 in Nos. 7, 9, 10, and 12; 2 in No. 13, 1 in No. 14 in the "Western
half of the parish, and in the Eastern, 2 in No. 30, 1 in Nos. 31 and 34,
and 2 in No. 35. The disease has continued to prevail extensively during
July, but chiefly in the early part of the month. The cases recorded in
the books of the parochial surgeons amounted to 93—the weekly numbers being
43, 19, 10, 21, and were mainly in the poor districts Bemerton, Canal,
Battle Bridge, and City Road, Nos. 6, 13, 14, and 34.