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22
REPORT
of the
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON
FOR MARCH, 1862.
No. LX.
The registered mortality of the five weeks of March was 285, and
as the mean of the corresponding weeks of the previous five years,
corrected for increased population, is 309, we may consider that had
the same rate of mortality occurred, 24 more deaths would have been
recorded. The diseases of the zymotic class which have been the most
fatal are Scarlet Fever and Continued Fever. From Scarlet Fever 17
deaths were recorded, the weekly numbers being 4, 2, 6, 2, 3. The
number of deaths registered in the previous four weeks was 21. The
sanitary districts in which they occurred were as follow:—one in
No. 4, two in one house in No. 6, one in No. 8, two in No. 10, three
in No. 11, and one in No. 12, in the western half of the Parish; and
in the eastern, two in one house in No. 17, and one in No. 18, No. 19,
No. 25, No. 30, and No. 32. Inmates of the Workhouse who have
been removed to the Fever Hospital and some of whom have died
there from Typhus, I am informed by Mr. Ede, were persons who
were either engaged in the tramp ward, or whose duty it was to wash
articles of clothing for the vagrants.
A nurse and a cook at the Fever Hospital are included amongst
those who died from Typhus.
EDWARD BALLAKD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Vestry Offices,
April7th, 1862.