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53
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MAM, ISLINGTON,
FOR AUGUST, 1864.
No. LXXXIX.
The tables of mortality and sickness during the four weeks of August
call for but few remarks. The number of deaths registered, namely,
260, approach within six of the corrected mean mortality of the previous
eight years, namely, 254. The number of deaths from bowel complaints,
diarrhœa and summer cholera, amounted to 52, all but four occurring
among infants and young children. This number exceeds the corrected
mean of eight years by eight deaths. They were chiefly registered during
the first three weeks of the month. The two deaths from small-pox were
both in unvaccinated persons, one of them being a child in Adelaide
Square. I understand that the District Vaccinator met with but
little success in inducing the parents of unvaccinated children in this
place to bring their children to be vaccinated. Of the deaths from
fever enly one is designated "typhus." The deaths of very young
infants stated to be due to " atrophy," "inanition," "debility from
birth," &c. were unusually numerous.
EDWARD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Vestry Offices,
September 5th, 1864.