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TO THE VESTRY OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON.
Gentlemen,
1. In presenting to you my Seventh Annual Report, I am happily able to state
that the result of the tabulations of sickness and mortality in Islington, during
1862, exhibits a condition of public health superior to any that has been observed
in the six preceding years. You may have been prepared for this announcement
by the almost uniform tenour of my Monthly Reports.
MORTALITY AND SICKNESS.
2. Between the 1st of January and the 31st of December, inclusive, there died in
the Parish (excluding strangers in the Fever and Small Pox Hospitals) 3,010
persons. To obtain a more accurate statement of mortality, we must take credit
for 207 more deaths, our proportion of those which took place in the several general
and special hospitals of the Metropolis. Our corrected mortality for 1862 thus
becomes 3,217. If, as it is usual to assume, the population of the Parish lias continued
to increase at the same rate as it did between 1851 and 1861, viz., by the
addition each year of 5 per cent, of the population of each preceding year, the
number of our inhabitants in the middle of 1862 was 164,986. Hence for
every 10,000 persons there happened 194 deaths. In 1861 the death rate was
200 per 10,000. The death rate of London generally in 1862 was 234 per 10,000,
an increase and not a diminution upon that of the previous year.