London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Islington 1859

[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....23..38
Chicken Pox....173....20
Measles....1527..244
Scarlatina....113..822
Hooping Cough....138....21
Croup......1....1
Diarrhœa....26129..47
Dysentery....5......5
Cholera..............
Ague....12..47
Continued Fever and Infantile Fever2*..96..16†33
Puerperal Fever..............
Rheumatic Fever2..52....9
Erysipelas....72....9
Diphtheria....11....2
Sorethroat or TonsiHitis....1412....25
Pyæmia..............
Bronchitis and Catarrh11..12937..2200
Pneumonia....51..410
Pleurisy....5......5
Delirium Tremens....1......1
Insanity2..2......4
Carbuncle........1..1
All other diseases4545423454115992
Total62481046572541467

* Tramps. † "Typhus," 5 "Typhoid,."