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REPORT
ON THE
SANITARY CONDITION OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON
FOR JUNE, 1871.
No. CLXXXIX
2 190
If we could put the epidemic of Small-pox out of the question, the
public health of the parish during the five weeks ending July 1, must
be considered satisfactory. The new cases of sickness in the public
practice, namely, 2978, is the smallest number recorded in June since
1867, when the number was practically the same. The comparative
coolness of the season, and the abundant rainfall has had much to do
with this. The deaths registered, including deaths of our parishioners
in the Hampstead Small Pox Hospital, amounted to 366. The mean
number of deaths in June during the last ten years was 325. In order
to correct this for comparison with this year's deaths in June, we must
add, as an allowance for increase of the population during the decenniad,
15.2 per cent., which brings the number up to 374, so that our mortality
in June was rather below the average. There has been a slight increase
in the number of cases of measles and hooping cough, but nothing like
an epidemic increase. Bowel complaints, too, have only been moderately
frequent for the season of the year.
It will be observed, with satisfaction, that Small-pox has continued to
abate in the parish. The number of fresh cases in the public practice
was 178 in the five weeks, against 236 in the four weeks of May. The
deaths recorded were 68 against 51, but it is to be recollected that
many of these were of persons attacked with the disease in May.
The weekly cases, as recorded, were,—
Public Cases
In week ending June 3 41
„ „ 10 53
„ „ 17 30
„ „ 24 28
„ July 1 26