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43
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR NOVEMBER, 1863.
No. LXXX
Although the monthly mortality has been somewhat higher than that
of October, and is still above the average, several improvements have
been observable in the public health. Small pox and scarlet fever have
been less prevalent and less fatal, the deaths from the former having
fallen from 5 to 3, and of the latter from 40 to 17. The total mortality
of the month is 290, which is 18 above the corrected mean.
But although the deaths from zymotic maladies generally have been
reduced, those from respiratory diseases have increased—to a greater
extent, too, than is customary at this season of the year. Sixty-five
deaths from these causes have been registered, and of these no less than
23 are said to have been due to pneumonia. This is an unusually large
number, being more than double the uncorrected mean for November.
Seven cases of infectious fever (typhus) have been received from various
parts of Islington into the Fever Hospital during the four weeks. From
one room at No. 3, Queen's Koad, where a family was living in a state
of extreme filth, one case was sent, and since the expiration of the month
three more, and it was found necessary to destroy the bedding, &c., and
to prohibit the further use of the room until again rendered fit for habitation.
Of the 10 deaths recorded as from fever, nine were of the
endemic form (typhoid), and only one of the infectious and epidemic
fever (typhus).