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REPORT
ON the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON,
FOR AUGUST, 1869.
No. CLXVIII.
The public health of the Parish, if we could put aside two kinds of
epidemic sickness, would have been during the month of August tolerably
satisfactory. The deaths (317) did not reach the average number
(338), and the public sickness generally was not only less than in July,
but less also than in the corresponding weeks of the three previous
years. The two epidemic diseases which have prevailed so much as to
qualify the inference that might be drawn from the total number of
deaths and cases of sickness are scarlet fever and hooping cough. The
former has prevailed more than in any August since the unhealthy year
1863, and the latter more than in any August since I have held office.
Of scarlatina I have recorded 64 cases in the public practice of the
parish, and 16 deaths in the parish at large; and of hooping cough no
less than 101 cases and as many as 30 deaths throughout the parish.
It is to be observed, however, that both of these diseases have been
spreading more on the eastern than on the western side of the district.
I have already pointed out that scarlet fever approached us this year
from the east of London, a part of the metropolis which during the past
month has, judging from the Registrar.General's return, been the principal
seat of the mortality from this malady.