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21
REPORT
OF THE
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON
FOR FEBRUARY, 1862.
No. LIX.
The number of deaths registered during February was 269, which
are 16 over the corrected mean of the previous five years, and 39 above
the registered mortality of January. The diseases which have been
most fatal have been those of the respiratory organs and scarlet fever.
Of the latter 22 cases have died, a similar number to those registered
in January. The sanitary districts in which the deaths occurred are
as follow:—one occurred in No. 4, two in No. 6, one in No. 7, No. 8,
and No. 10, and two in No. 13, all in the western half of the Parish;
and in the eastern half, one in No. 16, three in No. 17, two in No. 18,
one in No. 22 and No. 24, three in No. 30, one in No. 31, and two in
No. 35. The weekly deaths were 9, 5, 4, 4. Eight deaths have been
registered from Fever, five of which cases are said to have been
"Typhus," viz.: two nurses at the Fever Hospital, one person
confined in the City Prison, and one case which was received into the
Hospital from Cumming Street North. The fifth case was a tramp sent
into the Hospital from the Workhouse. Several improvements have
been made in Caledonia Street, but one of the principal nuisances
there remains yet unabated.
Two hundred and ten persons have been admitted into the Fever
Hospital, the majority suffering from Typhus.
EDWARD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Vestry Offices,
March 17 th, 1862.