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39
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR JULY, 1863.
No. LXXVI.
The death rate, indicative of a low condition of the public health in
June, continued to increase in July. The number of deaths registered
in the four weeks ending July 25th was 295. This number is 47 above
the average mortality of the Parish in July for the past seven years, and
at the rate of 10 deaths a week more than took place during the month
of June. The deaths from bowel complaints were 46, a number only
exceeded by the deaths from the same causes in 1857 and 1859. The
weekly new cases of diarrhoea entered on the books of the Parochial Surgeons
were 16, 41, 59, 65, showing the mode in which it has increased
with the warm and dry weather we have past through. No rain fall
was registered at Greenwich during the first three weeks of the month,
and but little during the fourth. Scarlet fever has continued to increase
amongst us; eighty new cases were entered on the books of the
Parochial Surgeons and Dispensaries, the weekly numbers being 17, 19,
26, 18. The deaths amounted to 44, the mean for July being 8.
The weekly deaths were 6, 8, 13, 15; five of them occurred in Albert
Square, one at No. 8, two at No. 9, two at No. 14; at the last named