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61
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR MARCH, 1865.
No. XCVI.
The mortality of the past month, 382, has been nearly the same as
the corrected mean for the past eight years, 377. The mortality and
prevalence of the miasmatic and contagious class of disease have been
very small, small-pox alone showing an unusual number of cases and
deaths. The deaths amounted to 7, and the new cases met with by the
Parochial Medical Officers, &c., to 21, (14 during the last two weeks
of the month.) It is a great pity that after all the public experience
of small-pox during the last few years, and the overwhelming evidence,
even in our own parish, of the efficacy of vaccination as a protective
measure, parents should still neglect the vaccination of their children
as they do, and that grown up persons who have been vaccinated in
infancy should require almost a panic to rouse them to consult a
qualified practitioner as to the present efficacy of the protection they
are supposed to have received. Four of the deaths from fever are said
to have been from "typhus."