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Scarlatina caused only 29 deaths, the smallest number ever
recorded in Islington since 1855 as attributable to this disease. The
next lowest number was 43 in 1873, whilst the highest number recorded
was 465 in 1870.
The smallness of the number of deaths from this disease is not the
only fact worthy of note, for it was again observable that the districts
chiefly affected by Diphtheria were those which suffered the least from
Scarlatina.
The deaths from Scarlatina in the previous ten years were 57, 95,
142, 116, 198, 135, 173, 200, 125 and 222.
Whooping Cough continued to be severely epidemic. Although
apparently declining during the last five months of 1884, it broke out
again in January 1885, with renewed intensity, the deaths during the
year reaching 200, as against 268, 119, 299, and 172 in the four
previous years.
Diarrhcea caused 191 deaths, as against 266, 162, 149, 216. and
295 in the five previous years. The largest number of deaths
occurred, as usual, in the months of July and August.
To Fever generally only 55 deaths were referred, as against 83, 86,
77, and 79 in the four previous years.
THE SMALL-POX EPIDEMIC, 1884 & 1885.
The epidemic of Small-Pox, to which I must now again refer, may
be said to have extended over a period of nearly two years. This will be
seen from the following table of 1,267 cases of sickness and 222 deaths,
chiefly recorded between February, 1884, and September, 1885.
The numbers, which rapidly increased after February, 1884,
reached their maximum in January and February, 1885, with 170 cases
and 28 deaths, and 133 cases and 27 deaths, in those two months
respectively. From March, however, the numbers, with some variation,
gradually decreased, until in September, 1885, there were only 9 cases
recorded, with four deaths. In the following month no case was
recorded, and in November and December there was an average
number of six cases only in each month.