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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR JUNE, 1869.
No. CLXVI.
When the rapid extension of our Parish is taken into account, the
amount of sickness and mortality prevalent amongst us during the five
weeks, which I count into the month of June, contrasts favourably with
that observed last year. And this is in accord with the fact of the more
favourable atmospheric conditions, and especially with the comparative
coolness of the season. Three hundred and seventy deaths were
registered, against 382, the mean mortality of the previous ten years,
supposing that the population had been as large as it is at present. The
number of cases of sickness which I have recorded is 334.5, against
3906 cases occurring in the same institutions during the corresponding
period of last year. Up to the close of the month there had been
comparatively very little summer diarrhœa. The contagious diseases
which have prevailed most have been chicken.pox, hooping cough, and
scarlet fever. Of chicken.pox there have been 45 cases in the public
practice of the Parish—it has never prevailed so extensively since I
have held my present office. Hooping cough, as was anticipated, has
increased, with the lise of mean temperature and dry weather, from 99
cases in four weeks to 161 cases in five weeks—the registered deaths
rising from 26 in May to 58 in June Scarlet fever has risen from 35
cases and.10 registered deaths in the four weeks of May, to 47 cases
and 18 registered deaths in the five weeks of June. It is still mostly
prevalent in the South.Eastern part of the Parish, but 15 cases out of
the 47 were observed in Lower Holloway.