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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR, SEPTEMBER, 1867.
No. CXXV.
The mortality of the parish during the five weeks ending September
28th has been less by 20 deaths than the mean mortality (corrected) of
the corresponding weeks for ten years past. Three hundred and thirtythree
deaths were registered, of which 117 were referred to diseases of
the zymotic class. The recorded sickness, as occurring in the practice
of the several institutions which furnish me with returns, amounted to
3435 cases, a number which is undoubtedly unusually high for September.
The zymotic maladies which have added most largely both to the
sickness and mortality, have been diarrhœal affections and scarlet fever,
which last, during the past month, has exhibited a special tendency to
revive amongst us.
The prevalence of bowel complaints may partly have been due to the
comparatively high temperature which prevailed in the early weeks of
the month, but this will of itself scarcely account for the large number
of 386 cases found upon the sickness table and the 73 deaths (two
stated as due to choleraic diarrhoea) found upon the mortality table.
The corrected mean mortality from diarrhœa, dysentery, and cholera,
in the ten previous Septembers is 36, that is half the number of deaths
registered this year. In fact the mortality from bowel complaints
(although 25 cholera deaths were counted in) in September last year
only amounted to 51.