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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 1893
Thirty-eighth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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Table XLVIII. Showing the Cases of Infectious Disease which were investigated by the several Sanitary Inspectors.
| 1893. Sanitary Inspectors. | No. of the Sanitary Districts. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Mem-cranous Croup. | Enteric (Typhoid Fever.) | Typhus Fever. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Cholera. | TOTAL. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspector Sweeney | 1 | 14 | 236 | 72 | 2 | 25 | 1 | 39 | 1 | - | - | - | 390 |
| ,, Cowling | 2 | 27 | 245 | 79 | 4 | 42 | _ | 143 | 5 | 1 | _ | _ | 546 |
| „ Ward | 3 | 1 | 138 | 81 | 2 | 8 | _ | 19 | 1 | _ | _ | _ | 250 |
| ,, Pain | 4 | 4 | 259 | 45 | 2 | 17 | _ | 42 | 4 | 1 | _ | _ | 374 |
| ,, Flood | 5 | 3 | 149 | 38 | 1 | 8 | _ | 18 | 1 | _ | _ | _ | 218 |
| ,, Smith | 6 | 14 | 239 | 37 | 3 | 14 | - | 41 | 8 | - | _ | - | 356 |
| ,, Lawrence | 7 | 2 | 237 | 30 | - | 22 | __ | 22 | 2 | _ | _ | _ | 315 |
| ,, West | 8 | 1 | 212 | 71 | 1 | 15 | - | 23 | 3 | - | - | - | 326 |
| „ Watson | 9 | 24 | 329 | 93 | 2 | 19 | - | 66 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 536 |
| ,, Mitchener | 10 | 3 | 210 | 54 | - | 20 | _ | 39 | - | 1 | _ | _ | 327 |
| ,, Fortune | 11 | 5 | 124 | 79 | 3 | 18 | — | 49 | 1 | 2 | — | — | 281 |
| ,, Hillyard | 12 | 8 | 182 | 45 | 2 | 12 | - | 49 | 3 | - | - | - | 301 |
| „ Rolfe | 13 | 3 | 175 | 36 | - | 14 | - | 36 | 3 | - | - | - | 267 |
| ,, Jordan | 14 | 7 | 137 | 95 | 3 | 16 | — | 69 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 330 |
| TOTALS | 1 16 | 2872 | 855 | 25 | 250 | 1 | 655 | 36 | 7 | — | — | 4817 |
Note. In the above table the investigations ascribed to Inspector Pain are incorrect, as for a long while he was engaged in making an
inspection of the outworkers' lists, and his cases were taken chiefly by Inspectors Cowling and Ward.