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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR MAY, 1869.
No. CLXV.
The mortality of the parish, during the four weeks ending May 29th,
has been below the average. Three hundred and one deaths, which
were registered, represent a mortality less, by about 30, than the mean
corrected mortality of the ten previous years. The epidemic of the
season is whooping cough, of which 99 cases have been recorded in
the public practice, while 26 deaths are found recorded upon the
mortuary table. The only other disease which has given me much
anxiety is scarlet fever, which, spreading to us from the eastern districts,
has proved fatal to ten persons, chiefly residing in the eastern
half of the parish. It has prevailed principally in that part of the
parish which lies nearest to Hoxton. An outbreak in Lindsay Cottages
has specially attracted my attention, in consequence of the bad sanitary
condition of the dwellings, which we have much difficulty, and have
met with many delays in getting remedied. Speaking generally, there
has been less public sickness, by about 430, cases than was recorded
in April. The weather has been such as is calculated to promote a
good general condition of the public health at this season of the year.