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62
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR APRIL, 1865.
No. XCVII.
The registered mortality of the month is 313. The corrected mean
of the previous nine years is 294; so that if our population has been
increasing at the same rate as between 1851 and 1861, our mortality
must be stated at 19 above the average for April. There has been an
unusually large mortality from the so-called local diseases, and also an
unusually large number of deaths from violent causes.
The zymotic maladies produced only 54 deaths, the most fatal being
hooping cough. This and small-pox are the only diseases of this class
that exhibit unusual prevalence The mortality from small-pox is rising.
The amount of sickness generally during the month has been moderate.
Small-pox, however, is most decidedly on the increase. In the four
weeks of January I recorded 10 cases as reported to me; in the four
weeks of February, 14 cases; in the five weeks of March, 21 cases;
and now, in the four weeks of April, I have to record 25 cases.
The greater number, but not all, have been met with in the northern
part of the parish. In two houses, one in the Upper Cottenham road
and one in Campbell road, containing a large number of inhabitants,
which were reported to me, nearly every person was attacked; and
other instances (not counted into my table) have been brought to my
knowledge in which whole families have been laid down with small-pox-
It is said to have been brought into the parish by some navvies engaged
upon one of the new railway lines; but whether this be true or not, I
have been able to ascertain that houses occupied by navvies have