Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Thirty-ninth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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Table XXXIII.
(N.B.—Duplicate cases have been deducted.)
Wards. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever orScarlatina. | Diphtheria | Membranous Croup. | Enteric (Typhoid Fever). | Typhus Fever. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Continued Fever. | Relapsing Fever. | Cholera. | Total. | Cases notified per 1,000 of Population. |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
Upper Holloway | 26 | 525 | 294 | 4 | 65 | .. | 142 | 10 | 2 | .. | .. | *1,068 | .. |
Lower Holloway | 5 | 196 | 131 | 5 | 32 | 1 | 59 | 4 | 1 | .. | .. | 434 | .. |
Highbury | 5 | 219 | 133 | 2 | 48 | .. | 48 | 5 | 3 | .. | .. | 463 | .. |
Thornhill | 10 | 165 | 81 | 6 | 19 | .. | 43 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 326 | .. |
Barnsbury | .. | 116 | 37 | 1 | 21 | .. | 19 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 195 | .. |
St. Mary's | 15 | 91 | 45 | .. | 9 | .. | 20 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 181 | .. |
Canon bury | 2 | 90 | 25 | 5 | 21 | .. | 26 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 170 | .. |
St. Peter's | 26 | 91 | 97 | 1 | 30 | .. | 38 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 283 | .. |
Totals | 89 | 1493 | 843 | 24 | 245 | 1 | 395 | 23 | 7 | .. | .. | 3,120 | 9.4 |
1892 | 40 | 1703 | 700 | 43 | 216 | .. | 546 | 51 | 6 | .. | †4 | 3,303 | 10.2 |
1893 | 118 | 2879 | 854 | 30 | 251 | 1 | 672 | 38 | 7 | .. | .. | 4,851 | 14.7 |
* This number includes 64 cases in the Holborn Infirmary (non-residents in the Parish). † 2 cases of true cholera imported from Hamburg.