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REPORT
ON THE
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR DECEMBER, 1868.
No. CXL.
We are this year under the necessity of counting six weeks into
December. The deaths registered in this period, 522, reduced by onesixth,
give us 435 deaths for comparison with the corrected average
mortality of December for 10 years past, viz.: 479 deaths. Hence we
infer that our deaths this month have been about one-eleventh less than
they would have been had the average mortality of December prevailed.
This low mortality is probably due very much to the mildness of the
season.
The sickness among those who receive gratuitous medical relief has
however continued to be excessive. Happily, small-pox continues to
present but few cases, and scarlet fever exhibits a disposition to decline.
Measles, however, which the extreme heat of the spring and summer
appears to have kept in abeyance during the year, attained its greatest
prevalence among us in December. One hundred and sixty-one cases
and 31 deaths appear respectively upon the sickness and mortality
tables. Hooping Cough has also been very prevalent. I have still to
record a large number of cases entered in the books of Medical Officers
as " Sorethroat " and " Mumps."
EDWARD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Vestry Offices,
January 12 th, 1869.