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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON
FOB, JANUARY, 1871.
No. CLXXXV.
The very inclement weather which we have of late experienced has
produced a decided effect upon our mortality table. The total deaths
registered were 438. This number contrasts very unfavorably with the
numbers registered in January during the last three years; namely,
338 in 1868, 350 in 1869, and 379 last year. The mortality from
pulmonary affections (bronchitis, pnuemonia, &c.,) amounted to 158.
With the exception of one year, the general and pulmonary mortality
have not been so high in my experience here. The January I allude to
was that of 1861' when 450 deaths were registered, of which 149 were
due to diseases of the respiratory organs. The mortality on that
occasion was referable to a severe frost.
The epidemic of Small-pox has extended very seriously during the
month. Thirty deaths (including two at the Hampstead Hospital) have
been registered during the month. Taking the new cases seen by
public officers only, that is by the parochial surgeons, the officers of
the dispensaries and of institutions which furnish me with returns, I
have recorded 121 in the course of the four weeks. The progress of
the disease may be judged of by stating the public cases on my record,
in a fortnightly series, beginning from the middle of October.
Public Cases.
Fortnight ending Oct. 22nd 4
„ Nov. 5th 20
„ „ 19th 15
„ Dec. 3rd 34
„ „ 17 th 47
„ ,, 31st 40 ,
,, Jan. 14th 54
„ „ 28th 67