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42
REPORT
ON THE
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR OCTOBER, 1863.
No. LXXIX.
Two hundred and eighty-two deaths have been registered during the
past month, of which nearly half, or 131., were of children under 5 years
of age. This mortality is again unusually high, since, if the death-rate
of the previous seven years had ruled, the deaths would not have exceeded
225. Small pox, scarlet fever, hooping cough, and acute inflammatory
chest diseases have had most to do with the excess. In no October that
has passed since I have held my present office has scarlet fever been so fatal.
The highest number of deaths was 28 in October, 1861. The deaths
have chiefly taken place in the streets about the Caledonian and Lower
Roads, occupied by the labouring classes. The weekly numbers were
9, 14, 8, 9. The weekly number of cases attended by the parochial
surgeons and the dispensaries were, 27, 22, 16, 18. There have been five
deaths from small pox, as follows:—
At 26, Buckingham Street, daughter of a cheesemonger, aged 3 months Unvaccinated.
From 6, Gordon Court, a girl, aged 4 years Unvaccinated.DiedinS Hosp.)
„ 4, The Terrace, New Norfolk Street, a girl, aged 11 years Unvaccinated.Died ins S.P.Hosp)
„ 7, George Street, Caledonian Road, a roan, aged 67 years Unvaccinated. DiedTnS.P.Hos)
At 32, Packington Street, a joiner, aged 26 years.
During some weeks past an epidemic of typhus fever has been prevailing
extensively in some parts of London. Commencing at so early a