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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR SEPTEMBER, 1862.
No. LXYI.
I have again to report another month of comparatively low mortality.
The deaths registered during the five weeks ending September 27th, were
234; the corrected average of the previous six years being 263. The
deaths, therefore, have been less numerous by 29 than they would have
been at the rates which have hitherto prevailed in September. The deaths
from Scarlet Fever have been more numerous than uBual, 18 having been
registered as occurring principally in those districts which lie at the SouthEastern
and South-Western parts of the parish. Nine deaths also have
been registered from Diptheria, which is about the average of the mortality
from this disease in September of the last four years. From Bowel
Complaints there have been 22 deaths; our corrected average for September
being 31. The deaths from Consumption have been less numerous than in
any September since I have had my present office.
Among the deaths recorded this month, there have been unhappily four
arising directly from the intemperate use of alcoholic drinks; and one of an
illegitimate child, a month old, to whom an excessive quantity of syrup
of poppies had been given. There can be little doubt that we do not
hear of even a small fraction of those infant deaths which actually reBult
from the use of soothing drugs. Among the deaths from Typhus is included
that of another nurse at the Fever Hospital.