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29
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST MARY ISLINGTON
FOR AUGUST, 1802.
No. LXV.
The registered mortality during the month of August has been less
than it was during July, and I have also still to record a death rate considerably
lower than the average of the six previous years. The deaths registered
in the four weeks amounted to 202; the mean mortality of August,
corrected for increase in our population, would have been 225, or 23 more
deaths than were actually registered.
Measles and scarlet fever have continued to carry off more than their
ordinary number of victims. The weekly deaths from measles were 4, 6,
4, 0. They occurred in nearly the same districts as those in July. Three
deaths have occurred in one house in Blundell Street, and three in one
house in Sidney Grove, City Road. No matter what the epidemic disease
may be, I am certain to have to register a high fatality in the last-named
place, most of the houses being constructed so as to favour, in every way,
the spread of infectious disease, and to impress upon every case that occurs
in them a tendency to a fatal termination. The weekly deaths from scarlet
fever were 4, 2, 3, 2. They occurred as follows:—2 in No. 7 district,
and 1 in Nos. 11 and 13 in the "Western division; and in the Eastern, 2
in No. 24, 1 in No. 27, 3 in No. 30, and 1 in No. 32.
The deaths from various forms of bowel complaints amounted to 23,