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ISL 34
59
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MAM, ISLINGTON,
FOR JANUARY, 1865.
No. XCIV.
We have commenced the new year with a mortality of 48 above the
corrected mean of eight years, the deaths registered during the four
weeks of January amounting to 369.
The mortality has been especially great amongst the old. In the last
week of the month—the snowy week which succeeded the dense fog of
the 21st of January—107 persons died.
The zymotic mortality has been increased by an unusual number of
deaths for the month from measles and hooping-cough. The deaths
from measles took place chiefly amongst the children attacked in the
White Conduit district, to whom I alluded in my last report. The
deaths from so-called local diseases, and especially from diseases of the
respiratory organs, have been somewhat numerous—the immediate
result of the inclement weather; but these diseases have nevertheless
been less fatal than they were in January last year.