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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR JANUARY, 1867.
No. CXVII.
A severe frost set in on the last day of the old year, commencing on
Monday, December 31. The lowest temperature 6.6° was reached in
the early hours of Saturday, January 5th; but in the course of the next
day the frost suddenly broke up, and a temperature of 43.7° was
reached. The mean temperature of January 7th was 49.2°; and from
this day the temperature very gradually became lowered, until the frost
re-commenced on Saturday the 12th. It continued, but with less
severity than before, until the 22nd, when it again suddenly broke up,
the temperature rising 10 degrees between 7.30 p.m. and midnight.
A frost like this, with such sudden variations of atmospheric temperature,
could not have been without result upon the public health and
mortality.
Throughout London the mortality was increased, but it is somewhat
remarkable, that putting our hospital mortality out of consideration,
the deaths in the four weeks of January here have not quite reached
the corrected average. The registered mortality was 372, and the
corrected mean of 10 previous years is 380. A great many old persons
however have been carried off—83 between 60 and 80 years of age,
and 15 above 80 years. One of the latter was an old lady aged 91 years.
Ninety-three of the deaths proceeded from diseases of the organs of
respiration (exclusive of those from consumption).