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60
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR FEBRUARY, 1866.
No. XCV.
The registered mortality, 318, is the same as in February last year.
Indeed there is a remarkable parallelism throughout between the
mortality table for the past month and that of the corresponding
month last year. The total mortality represents an excess of 15 oyer
the corrected average of eight years. The excess is due entirely to the
large number of deaths referred to the so-called local diseases.
The amount of zymotic disease has been comparatively small, as
appears from Table II. There have been three deaths from small-pox.
In the case of one infant who died from this disease, Dr. Lankester held
an inquest.
Of the deaths from fever, three are said to have been from
Typhus, one of these, however, caught the disease at the Fever Hospital,
and another is doubtful.
EDWARD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Vestry Offices,
March 6th, 1865.