View report page

REPOKT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON
FOR MARCH, 1871.
No. CLXXXVII.
Four hundred and sixty-eight deaths (including six registered at
Hampstead) were recorded by the Registrar during the five weeks
ending April 1st. This number is only 10 more than was recorded in
March last year. It includes 50 deaths from Small-pox, and. 23 from
Hooping Cough. The death-rate from the former disease then has
been rather less than in the month of February, but that from the
latter has greatly increased.
The epidemic of Small-pox has spread more extensively in Islington
since the month of February closed. In the course of the five weeks
198 cases were recorded upon the books of the Parochial Medical
Officers and the two Dispensaries, against 123 similarly recorded in the
four weeks of February. There were considerable fluctuations,
however, week by week, as will appear from the following table:—
Public Cases.
Week ending March 4th 61
„ „ 11th 26
„ 18th 38
„ 25th 48
,, April 1st 25
Since the end of March a sudden and extensive outbreak of the
disease has occurred at the north-eastern part of the parish, coincidently
with a similar outburst in the adjoining parish of St. Pancras.
Of the 198 cases mentioned above, not more th m half, viz.: 98, were sent
to the Small-pox Hospitals, the remaining 100 being treated at home.
This arose in some instances from the unwillingness of the patients to
be removed, in other instances from the lack of sufficient hospital accommodation.
Notwithstanding the strenuous and praiseworthy efforts of
the Asylum Board to perform the function allotted to them, the accommodation
they have provided has still been below the necessities of this