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REPORT
ON THE
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MAM, ISLINGTON
FOR MAY, 1871.
No. CLXXXIX.
The deaths registered in the four weeks ending May 27th were 299.
Almost precisely the same number was registered in May last year;
and it indicates a very low general death rate. The general public
sickness also has only been slightly in excess of that in the corresponding
weeks of last year. Small Pox is the only disease of the epidemic
class which has given us any cause for anxiety. It is ten years since
we have had so little Scarlet Fever in May.
The number of public cases of Small Pox has been 236, and the
deaths registered from this disease have been 51. Both numbers are
nearly the same as were recorded in the four weeks of April, the
difference representing a trifling decline. The weekly number of fresh
cases were—
Public Cases.
In week ending May 6 72
„ „ 13 67
„ „ 20 49
„ „ 27 48
The first week in May then appears to have been the culminating point
of the epidemic in Islington. A decided diminution was noticed in the last
two weeks of the month. This corresponds as precisely as possible
with my anticipations expressed early in the epidemic outbreak—and
which were based upon my observations here during the last fifteen
years. There is every reason to hope now, that as the atmospheric
temperature rises with the approach of summer, we shall see that
continued decline of the epidemic which we have so long been waiting