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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MAM, ISLINGTON
FOR FEBRUARY, 1871.
No. CLXXXVI.
The registered mortality for the four weeks ending February 25th
was 370, pretty nearly the same as in the corresponding weeks last year.
With the exception of the first week of the month, the temperature has
heen above the average for February and correspondingly the mortality
from pulmonary affections, which was high in. the previous month, has
fallen from 118 to 73; but this is still a high number.
Small-pox continues to extend; it would extend still more were it
not for the protection obtained by hundreds of all classes who are every
week in this parish renewing their vaccination, and the activity with
which primary vaccination is being urged on at all the public stations.
The number of fresh cases recorded in the practice of the Parochial
Surgeons and Dispensaries in the four weeks was 123, while the deaths
registered from Small-pox were 42. To this must be added three other
deaths which occurred in the Hampstead Hospital, making 45. The
weekly numbers of new cases were:—
Public Cases.
Week ending Feb. 4th, 20
„ 11th, 34
„ 18th, 38
„ 25th, 31
I am sorry to have to add that the week which ended last Saturday,
March 4th, the public cases recorded were double the last number,
namely 65. Of the 123 cases only 68 were removed to Hospital,
the others being treated at home, where they cannot fail to spread the
contagion. It is true that under certain circumstances there are powers
of compulsory removal, but for all practical purposes, the provisions
for this form of public protection have broken down under the stress of