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69
REPORT
ON THE
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR NOVEMBER, 1865.
No. C III.
The registered mortality of the four weeks ending November 25th
was 277, a number which does not reach by 30 deaths the corrected
mean mortality of the previous nine years. There has, throughout the
month, been a remarkable freedom from all the ordinary contagious
diseases of children, with the solitary exception of whooping cough.
The cases of continued fever, however, have risen from 26 in October to
40. The largest number of cases I have recorded in any November
was 33 in 1863. Most of the cases were of the enteric form (typhoid),
occurring in connection with local sources of miasma, but a few cases
of typhus have also been observed, the contagious source of which has
been traced, in some instances, to importation from the country.
The cases of bowel complaint returned to me have fallen from 164
in October to 70. This number, although in excess of the two previous
Novembers, is close upon the number returned in November, 1860 and
1861, while 88 cases were returned in 1862.