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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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TABLE II.
NEW CASES OP DISEASE TREATED BY THE PAROCHIAL MEDICAL OFFICERS DURING FIVE WEEKS ENDING
OCTOBER 1st, 1857.
| New Cases. | Small-Pox. | Chicken Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough | Croup. | Diarrhoea. | Dysentery. | Cholera. | Ague. | Infantile Fever | Typhus. | Rheumatic Fever. | Erysipelas. | Other Zymotic Diseases. | Total of Zymotic Dis. | Dis. of Resp. Organs. | Phthisis. | Carbuncles & Boils. | Chron.& Local Rheumatism. | Other Diseases. | Accidents and Injuries. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals | 913 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 16 | 14 | 0 | 164 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 252 | 119 | 8 | 19 | 485 | 26 | |
| Districts, &c. Workhouse | 81 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 14 | 2 | .. | 2 | 52 | 1 |
| Infant Poor House | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. |
| Northern District | 99 | .. | 3 | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | 18 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | 2 | 30 | 10 | .. | 1 | 6 | 41 | 11 |
| North-Westn. District | 152 | .. | .. | 3 | 5 | 6 | .. | 35 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 5 | .. | 1 | 2 | 59 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 63 | 3 |
| South-Westn. District | 141 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 5 | .. | 33 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 3 | .. | .. | 44 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 65 | 3 |
| North-Eastn. District | 177 | .. | .. | 7 | 11 | 1 | .. | 25 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 3 | .. | 1 | 2 | 51 | 16 | .. | .. | 5 | 103 | 2 |
| South-Eastn. District | 261 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 48 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 58 | 32 | 3 | .. | 3 | 159 | 6 |