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52
REPORT
ON THE
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MAM, ISLINGTON,
FOR JULY, 1864.
No. LXXXVIII.
Two hundred and seventy-seven deaths of inhabitants of Islington
were registered during the four weeks ending July 30th. The corrected
mean mortality of the eight previous years during the corresponding
period is 267, so that the present year exhibits 10 deaths in excess
of the average. The deaths which have contributed most to the excess
are those registered under the headings of "old age" on the one hand,
and "atrophy and debility" in infants on the other. The latter of
these terms is especially indefinite; at all events it is satisfactory that
with the exception of diarrhoea, which always prevails more or less at
this season of the year, the public health in this parish has been tolerably
satisfactory. Of the seven deaths returned as from "fever," only
one case appears to have been typhus, viz.: an engineer at the
London Fever Hospital.
EDWARD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Vestry Officcs,
August 10 th, 1864.