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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR, DECEMBER, 1864.
No. XCIII.
Our mortality and general sickness during the past 5 weeks have been
comparatively low. The deaths registered amounted to 368, a number
which is 38 below the corrected mean mortality of December during
the preceding 8 years. In London at large, the mortality has each week
been more or less in excess of the average.
The principal mortality has been due to diseases of the heart and
lungs, the zymotic diseases altogether producing only 66 deaths. During
the five weeks of December, the zymotic mortality has ranged, during
7 years past, from 66 (in 1857) to 134 (in 1862).
During the cold weather eight infants were suffocated accidentally in
bed, A slight outbreak of measles has taken place at the Infant Poor
Hou«e; and the only other part of the parish where measles has prevailed
to any extent is the White Conduit District, and the streets
adjoining the Caledonian Road.
Eight cases of Typhus (infectious low fever) have occurred to my
knowledge. Five have entered the Fever Hospital from a close dirty
house in Crescent Avenue. The eldest daughter, Emma Clark, was the
first attacked, having brought home the disease from No. 24, Caledonian
Crescent, where she worked, with a number of other girls, at artificial
flower making.