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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOE AUGUST, 1863.
No. LXXYII.
The number of deaths registered during the month of August,
amounting to 288, although somewhat below the mortality of July, is
still excessive, being as much as 55 over the corrected mean of seven
previous years. The diseases of the miasmatic order, notably small pox,
scarlatina and bowel complaints, together with apoplexy, paralysis and
other diseases of the brain, have been principally concerned in producing
this result. Scarlet fever appears, however, to have somewhat diminished
in frequency, both of cases and deaths; but a larger number both of
cases of small pox among the poor and of deaths from this malady have
been placed on record. The cases of small pox in Table II. amount to
31 against 25 in July, and the deaths in Table I. to 7 against 4 in July.
The weekly cases were 6, 8, 10, 7, and the deaths 3, 2, 1, 1. The latter
occurred as follows:—
At 6, Caledonia Crescent, daughter of a Stonemason, aged 9 weeks.
From 9, Bedford Place, Upper Holloway, Labourer, aged 26 years One Vaccine Cieatrix.
(Died in S.p.Hosp.)
— 5, Lampeter Street, male child, aged 3 years Unvaccinated,(
Died in S.P.Hosp.)
ditto female child, aged 10 months {UnvaccinatedDied in S.P.Hosp.),
At 7, Blenheim Road, daughter of a Stationer, aged 3 years.
From 4, Hanover Place, Horsekeeper, aged 22 years Unvaccinated. Died in S.P.Hosp.)
At 3a, Edward Street, White Conduit, daughter of a Miller, aged 5 months.
The weekly cases of scarlet fever recorded were 15, 14, 17, 15, and
the deaths 5, 8, 7, 14. Two of the latter were in a dark and badly ventilated
house, No. 14, Albert Square, where the basement is said to be