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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Islington 1870

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

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Table: TABLE 11.NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIFTY-TWO WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 31st DAY OF DECEMBER, 1870, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS:—

TABLE 11.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FIFTY-TWO WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 31st DAY OF DECEMBER, 1870, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS:—

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out Patient Paupers.Holloway Dispensary.Islington Dispensary.Pentonville Convict PrisonTotal.
Small Fox461504154..255
Chicken Fox..1226571..159
Measles4..333289349..975
Scarlatina....225288131..644
Whooping Cough14274116136..342
Croup....6920..35
Diarrhœa99..4415895333131975
Dysentery1..71717..42
Cholera....11....2
Ague3..561924
Continued Fever152108178165..468
Influenza..............
Puerperal Fever....51....6
Rheumatic Fever1..81426..49
Erysipelas18..704357..188
Diphtheria....353..11
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis3..19034854031084
Mumps....14..10..24
Pyœmia..............
Bronchitis and Catarrh30442132202427675237754
Pneumonia12625368..186
Pleurisy1..457976..201
Delirium Tremens8..52....15
Insanity70..8412..157
Carbuncle2..12722..43
All other Diseases858183524673788316177723758
Total140620092481155413364262538397