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30
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR NOVEMBER, 1862.
No. LXVIII.
A cold month, the temperature having been below the average during nearly
the whole of the four weeks, together with a marked prevalence of measles and
scarlet fever, has had an unfavourable influence upon our death rate. For the
first time since February it has not been below the mean of the previous six
years. The number of deaths registered was 282; the mean of the previous
six years augmented by 2-11ths for the increase of population was 255. Hence
the deaths in the four weeks amounted to 27 more than they would have done
had the average rate of death prevailed.
The deaths from the zymotic class of maladies amounted to 91, and included
18 from measles, 25 from scarlet fever, 12 from whooping cough, and 12 from
fever, several of which are stated to have been cases of typhus. Each of these
diseases then has been more fatal than during the month of October.
The weekly deaths from measles were 3, 4, 8, 3. The districts in which
they occurred were Lower Holloway, Bemerton, Park-street, White Conduit
and Canal districts in the western division, and Archway, Hornsey-road, Queen'sroad,
Ball's-pond, Kingsland, Mildmay, and Lower-road districts in the eastern
division. The greatest number occurred in the neighbourhood of the Queen's
road. The weekly deaths from scarlet fever were 5, 6, 8, 6. Of these, one
occurred in Highgate-hill, 3 in Belle Isle, 5 in Bemerton, 2 in Barnsbury, 4 in
Canal, and 1 in Battle-bridge districts in the western division of the parish;
while, in the eastern division, 1 occurred in the Archway district, 1 in Kingsland