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65
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR JULY, 1865.
No. C.
The past month has again been characterised by an unusually high
mortality. The registered deaths amounted to 329, a number which is
46 above what it would have been had the customary mortality of July
taken place. The excess is more than accounted for by the deaths
from diarrhoea, &c., amounting together to 94. The corrected mean of
the previous nine years for the corresponding weeks is 40. The highest
number I have hitherto recorded in July was 55 in 1859. The
weekly cases of bowel complaint returned by the Parochial Medical
Officers and the Islington Dispensary were 68,74,57, and 65. It is to
be hoped, that while the Inspectors appointed by the Vestry are
striving to put the houses inhabited by the poor into a good sanitary
condition this summer, householders, where it is presumed their visits
are unnecessary, will themselves look to the general cleanliness of their
houses, that their cisterns and water butts are thoroughly cleansed, that
their house drains are flushed, by receiving all available water through
them at intervals of a few days, that the inlets of their drains are
trapped, and that no accumulations of rubbish or filth be permitted
anywhere on their premises.
The deaths from small-pox have risen from 23 in five weeks to 40 in
four weeks. Most of these are of unvaccinated, and the rest of badlyvaccinated
persons. The cases attended weekly by the Parochial
Officers and the Islington Dispensary were 6, 17, 5, 5. The large
number of new cases in the second week of the month is remarkable.