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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR SEPTEMBER, 1863.
No. LXXYIII
There occurred in Islington during the five weeks ending the 26th of
September, 357 deaths, of which 208 were children under 10 years of
age. This mortality, indicating a low state of the public health, especially
amongst the poorer classes, is excessive, inasmuch as had the ordinary
death rate ruled there would have been 85 deaths the less. Although
diseases of the miasmatic order have been one principal cause of this
excess they have not been the only one, since, although accounting for
140 of the deaths, this number is ith less than it would have been had
the miasmatic death rate of August continued. The deaths from, so
termed, local diseases were 101, the highest number in any previous year
being 79; the number includes 35 deaths from respiratory diseases.
There were 14 persons over 80 years of age who died during the month,
11 of whom are stated to have died from the natural changes brought
about by prolonged existence.
Small pox, although greatly abated, has not yet left us. I mentioned
that in August the cases among the poor had been more numerous than
they were the previous month, and now, correspondingly with this fact,
we have to record a mortality which has risen from 7 to 13. They took
place as follows:—