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Islington 1885

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]

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£52 2s. 6d. having been paid to the Vestry for the accommodation
afforded by the Coroner's Court.
The proportion of inquests to deaths was about 6.4 per cent, for
the whole year.
SANITARY WORK OF THE YEAR, 1885-86.
Table No. VI.
This table of our Sanitary work has been prepared in the usual
manner, showing in the upper portion the number and variety of the
Inspections, re-inspections, and calls made by the District Inspectors
during the year, and in the lower portion the amendments effected.
In addition, the District Inspectors have also reported the
premises from which they have found removal of dust to be necessary.
By the authority of the Sanitary Committee, Carbolic Acid was
again used during the summer months in watering some of the streets.
Disinfecting Powder was also used in the hottest and driest part of the
season in the courts, and in connection with the Sunday morning
cleansing of the channels of the Essex, Caledonian, and Holloway roads,
where these thoroughfares are used as market-places until late on
Saturday night.
It will be seen from this table that a much larger number of
inspections were made and corresponding improvements effected than
usual, notwithstanding the continuance of the epidemics of Small-p ox
and Diphtheria, the excess being chiefly due to the fact that one extra
Inspector was employed in the work during the whole of the year, and
that three other Inspectors were also employed during the last nine
months of the year.
THE SLAUGHTER AND COW-HOUSES IN ISLINGTON, 1885-86.
At the Annual Licensing of 1885 there were 78 applications for
renewal of licenses to Slaughter-houses, and the whole of them were
granted.
For the renewal of licenses to Cow-houses, 39 applications were