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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 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]
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NEW CASES OF DISEASE TREATED BY THE PAROCHIAL MEDICAL OFFICERS DURING FIVE WEEKS ENDING
JULY 30th, 1857.
| New Cases. | Small-Pox. | Chicken Pox | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough | Croup. | Diarrhoea. | Dysentery. | 1 Cholera. | Ague. | Infantile Fever | Typhus. | Rheumatic Fever. | Erysipelas. | Other Zymotic Diseases | Total of Zymotic Dis. | 1 Dis. of Resp. Organs. | Phthisis. | Carbuncles <n Boils. | Chron.& Local Rheumatism. | Other Diseases. | Accidents and Injuries. | |
| Totals. . .. | 1084 | 0 | 9 | 10 | 4| 19 | 2 | 283 | i,o | i | 0 | 3 | 24 | 6 | 6 | 374 | 112 | 11 | 5 | 30 | 516 | 36 | ||
| Districts, &c. Workhouse........ | 80 | i | 8 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 42 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Infant Poor House | 9 | 1 | •• | 8 | •• | ||||||||||||||||||
| Northern District .. | 84 | 2 | • • | 2 | 15 | i | 3 | • • | 2 | 25 | 7 | 4 | 36 | 12 | |||||||||
| North-Westn. District | 183 | •• | 5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 48 | i | 8 | 1 | 1 | 77 | 23 | • • | 1 | 78 | 4 | |||||
| South-Westn. District | 152 | •• | .■ | 1 | • • | 2 | 45 | • • | i | •• | 7 | • • | 56 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 68 | 3 | ||||
| N'orth-Eastn. District | 146 | 3 | • • | 34 | 3 | 2 | 42 | 23 | 7 | 70 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| South-Eastn. District | 430 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 133 | i | 6 | 1 | 160! | 31 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 214 | 11 | ||||||