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REPORT
ON THE
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR OCTOBER, 1864
No XCI
October has almost always been a comparatively healthy month with
us in Islington, but the four weeks just closed have proved exceptionally
healthy, if the register of deaths is to be taken as our index Only 216
deaths altogether were registered, that is, 29 below what we should have
anticipated from our experience of the last eight years, taking the
increase ot our population into consideration

The mortality from the zymotic class of diseases was only 53, i e
absolutely lower than in any October since 1857, when it was 31 The
" constitutional diseases," and the causes of the " developmental" class
have also furnished an unusually small number of deaths The Table
of Sickness (Table II) confirms the conclusion I draw from the Table
of mortality ; for not only is the total number of cases 211 below that
of October last year, but, whereas there were registered in October last
year 32 cases of measles, 83 of scarlet fever, and 80 of hooping cough,
there are recorded on this month's Table only 51 cases of all these three
diseases put together
But perhaps the most remarkable thing about this low death-rate is
that the same month which has been so healthy for us, situated at a
considerable elevation at the North of London, has not been so for
the Metropolis at large The registered mortality of the month throughout
the whole of London was 5,373, and this exceeds the average of ten years
by 599