Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]
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TABLE II.
NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FOUR WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 28th DAY OF MAY, 1859, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.
Workhouse. | Infant Poor House. | Out-patient Paupers. | Holloway Dispensary. | Pentonville Prison. | London Fever Hospital. | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | .. | .. | 2 | 3 | .. | 3 | 8 |
Chicken Pox | .. | .. | 17 | 3 | .. | .. | 20 |
Measles | .. | .. | 15 | 27 | .. | 2 | 44 |
Scarlatina | .. | .. | 11 | 3 | .. | 8 | 22 |
Hooping Cough | .. | .. | 13 | 8 | .. | .. | 21 |
Croup | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 |
Diarrhœa | .. | .. | 26 | 12 | 9 | .. | 47 |
Dysentery | .. | .. | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 5 |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Ague | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | 4 | 7 |
Continued Fever and Infantile Fever | 2* | .. | 9 | 6 | .. | 16† | 33 |
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Rheumatic Fever | 2 | .. | 5 | 2 | .. | .. | 9 |
Erysipelas | .. | .. | 7 | 2 | .. | .. | 9 |
Diphtheria | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 |
Sorethroat or TonsiHitis | .. | .. | 14 | 12 | .. | .. | 25 |
Pyæmia | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Bronchitis and Catarrh | 11 | .. | 129 | 37 | .. | 2 | 200 |
Pneumonia | .. | .. | 5 | 1 | .. | 4 | 10 |
Pleurisy | .. | .. | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 5 |
Delirium Tremens | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Insanity | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 4 |
Carbuncle | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
All other diseases | 45 | 4 | 542 | 345 | 41 | 15 | 992 |
Total | 62 | 4 | 810 | 465 | 72 | 54 | 1467 |
* Tramps. † "Typhus," 5 "Typhoid,."