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Parish of St. Mary Stoke Newington.
REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER.
Vestry Offices,
Church Street,
Stoke Newington, N.
March, 7899.
To the Members of the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary, Stoke
Newington
Gentlemen,
Although the death-rates for London and the whole country
for the year 1898 were slightly in excess of those for 1897, the rate
for Stoke Newington (13.6) was below that of the preceding
year (14.0).
From a public health standpoint the year 1898 was somewhat
uneventful, for the country was happily free from any widespread
epidemics. The one noteworthy feature was the large number of
deaths during the third quarter from Summer Diarrhœa—a disease
which is essentially infantile in its incidence; and were it not for
the excess in these deaths the general mortality rates would be so
low as to almost constitute a record. The great determining factor
in these deaths is a high summer temperature with a diminished
rainfall, and it will be remembered that a hot dry season set in on
August nth, and that in September was experienced some of the
hottest weather which has prevailed for over half a century.