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TO THE
VESTRY OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON.
Gentlemen,
I have the honor to lay before you the records of birth and
mortality for the years 1876 and 1877, and I purpose considering
the statistics of both these years in one report. On this point a
word of explanation is called for, and may be permitted. We have,
as you know, had a serious outbreak of small-pox. At the end of
last October, and after it had been amongst us for a year, the whole
facts respecting its origin and the history of 1,000 cases, were very
carefully collated. These I placed before you in a somewhat lengthy
report, which was submitted to the Vestry, and ordered to be printed
and circulated. This report, together with that of the Sanitary
Committee presented at the same time, I now incorporate. This
constituted, of course, the chief sanitary question of the year, the
rest being little else than matters of detail. I have, therefore,
placed the few tables relating to that year in the report which I have
now the pleasure of submitting to you.
I lay before you in the following tables the number of
marriages, births and deaths recorded for the years 1876 and 1877.