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64
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR JUNE, 1865.
No. XCIX.
The unusually early summer heats that we have experienced have
assimilated our mortality for June to that usually met with a month
later. The registered deaths have amounted, during the five weeks, to
367, a number which is 63 in excess of the mean mortality of the
corresponding weeks for nine years past, corrected for increased
population. The excess is made up principally by small-pox, from
which seven deaths were registered; hooping cough, from which 26
deaths (an exceedingly high number) were registered; and bowel
complaints, from which 48 deaths were registered. The deaths registered
under the head "Diseases of the Nervous System" have been
as high as they were in June last year.
The general sickness among the poor, when the difference of the
number of weeks included is allowed for, has not been very much larger
than in May, but the character of the prevailing sickness is such as to
have been unusually fatal, especially diarrhoea and hooping cough to
young children. Forty of the deaths from bowel complaints were of
infants in their first year of life. Such infants as are fed artificially
during hot seasons, and who are injudiciously weaned at such times, are
the first to suffer from summer diarrhoea, and are those most likelv to